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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... 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 is more apparent here than in ...
... storm lasted for four days, during which time the ship leaked badly and passengers and crew together laboured ceaselessly to save her. 'The storm in a restless tumult' (wrote William Strachey, one of the gentlemen travelling with Gates) ...
... storm and seemingly providential redemption which had been common talk just months before. The presence of this material in the play helps to explain its slightly confusing geography. Although the island is located in the Mediterranean ...
... storm in Shakespeare, nor would Shakespeare have needed to be moved by 'real' events in order to devise one. Irrespective of what had recently been happening on the high seas, the cataclysmic shipwreck is a recurrent motif in romance ...
... storm had a literary prehistory long before William Strachey's adventures. The seminal Elizabethan romance, Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia (1580/93), begins with a shipwreck in which its heroes are cast adrift. Their helplessness before ...