The TempestBroadview Press, 9 feb. 2021 - 228 sidor The world that William Shakespeare creates in The Tempest has many features that make it recognizably like our own. There are bad, self-seeking people; brothers fall out with brothers; people who have power are reluctant to give it up; people fall in love; children love their fathers but want to break free. But there is also a fairy-spirit, music in the very air of the island, and a powerful magician who can command the elements and even, he tells us, bring the dead back to life. Combining reality and magic, Shakespeare creates an uncanny but morally coherent world. This edition features interleaved materials that expand upon allusions in the play and explore elements of its stagecraft. Appendices offer excerpts from Shakespeare’s key sources and inspirations, along with historical materials on exploration and colonialism. |
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... story to his daughter Miranda in the second scene. Twelve years before the action of the play, Antonio handed his brother Prospero and Prospero's three-year-old daughter Miranda over to a “treacherous army,” a small commando force ...
... story, a story that culminates in his decision to forgive those who have wronged him. The forgiveness is not merely an intellectual choice made in the teeth of his anger but rather a reorientation of his whole personhood in the ...
... story of the love and courtship of Ferdinand and Miranda. Prospero even takes on the conventional role of the curmudgeon who stands in the way of the happiness of the young lovers. But since much more happens in the play than courtship ...
... story of restoration and forgiveness (Prospero and the members of the court party), and (3) a parallel revenge plot, in which Caliban conspires with Stephano and Trinculo to take back the island. The foundation of the three plots is the ...
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Shakespeares Life | 45 |
Shakespeares Theater | 51 |
A Brief Chronology | 57 |
A Note on the Text | 61 |
The Tempest | 65 |
From Aristotle Politics fourth century BCE | 163 |
From Ovid Metamorphoses 8 CE | 168 |
From Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda The Second Democrate or The Just Causes of the War against the Indians 1547 | 170 |
From Bartolomé de las Casas A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies 1552 | 174 |
From Michel de Montaigne Of the Cannibals 157880 | 181 |
From William Strachey A True Reportory of the Wracke 1610 | 196 |
From John Dryden and William Davenant The Tempest or The Enchanted Island 1670 | 205 |
Works Cited and Select Bibliography | 217 |