The TempestPenguin UK, 29.10.2015 - 240 Seiten 'The magic in The Tempest is real ... It contains a great many unanswered questions' Margaret Atwood |
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... island has already been voiced by the European visitors, albeit for different reasons. For them, too, estrangement from their normal lives forces a reassessment that makes them see the everyday world as if through new eyes. In such ...
... Island Princess (1621), a tale of love, heroism and betrayal set amongst European traders in the East Indies. Other plays bring into familiar environments characters who challenge the audience's sense of what is normal, like Marlowe's ...
... island setting – with its sharp boundaries, and magic that works here but nowhere else – makes its world seem isolated and self-sufficient, an autonomous theatrical laboratory with its own internal logic. It is populated by unique ...
... island, whether it is phantom storms, invisible music, nymphs, harpies, vanishing banquets, flying goddesses, spirit dogs or dancing country-folk. What brings them into being is the technical wizardry of Shakespeare's playhouse, which ...
... reputation known to sailors as the Devil's Islands, but which turned out to be surprisingly hospitable. 'It pleased our merciful God' (wrote a much relieved Strachey) 'to make even this hideous and hated place both the place.