...common, eg Prospero in The Tempest, I.2.181-4: my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop. 34 security over-confidence 36 Discomfortable disheartening. Shakespeare does not use the negative...

...words, for they are subtly chosen. I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop. (Miranda's head droops) Here cease more questions; Thou art inclined to sleep; (In the tone of one...

...moment to its crisis : by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop. One could say even that the classical unities the play possesses are due to Prospero's direction. Divine...

...himself to the hour is Prospero's creed. 'I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.' Hermione in The Winter's Tale (of the same date) had already said the same in corollary. 'There's some...

...to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop. (1.2.178-184) He recalls the "then" in order to precipitate the "now." An auspicious star lies in Prospero's...

...to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop. (I.11.i78-84) Prospero treats his own Fortune as something external to himself, something he cannot...

...forever relinquish: By my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.3 (1.2. 180-84) The relation to the dramatist's art seems clear. The materials of his action,...

...to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions. 1 85 Thou art inclined to sleep; 'tis a good dulness, And give it way: I...

...to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions. (1.2.179-85) The answer to Miranda's question is left to be inferred from...

...in The Tempest when Prospero says, "I find my zenith doth depend upon/ A most auspicious star, whose influence/ If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes/ Will ever after droop." The point diametrically opposite the zenith and directly beneath the observer is the nadir, a derivative,...