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The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone.After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where Prospero, a wizard, lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel, an ...
The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's The Tempest" is a long poem by W. H. Auden, written 1942–44, and first published in 1944. Auden regarded the work as "my Ars Poetica , in the same way I believe The Tempest to have been Shakespeare's."
Sycorax / ˈ s ɪ k ər æ k s / is an unseen character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). She is a vicious and powerful witch and the mother of Caliban, one of the few native inhabitants of the island on which Prospero, the hero of the play, is stranded.
But in “The Tempest,” Shakespeare takes this proposition a step further, directly equating the ephemeral conjurations of the theater with the transient reality of the audience. Metaphor become ...
Sir Cedric Hardwicke (1940) (a one-hour adaptation of The Tempest on the 24 November episode of the NBC radio series Great Plays) Norman Shelley (1951) (BBC Third Programme) Sir Michael Hordern (1960) (Argo Records recording) Sir Michael Redgrave (1964) (Caedmon Records recording [SRS-201]) Alec Clunes (1964) (BBC Home Service). Paul Scofield ...
Stephano (/ ˈ s t ɛ f ən oʊ / STEF-ən-oh) is a boisterous and often drunk butler of King Alonso in William Shakespeare's play, The Tempest.He, Trinculo and Caliban plot against Prospero, the ruler of the island on which the play is set and the former Duke of Milan in Shakespeare's fictional universe. [1]
Ariel's song" is a verse passage in Scene ii of Act I of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. It consists of two stanzas to be delivered by the spirit Ariel , in the hearing of Ferdinand . In performance it is sometimes sung and sometimes spoken.
Ariel is a 1900 essay by Uruguayan author José Enrique Rodó. [1] Drawn from William Shakespeare's The Tempest, in which Ariel represents the positive, and Caliban represents the negative tendencies in human nature, this essay is a debate on the future course of history, in what Rodó intended to be a secular sermon to Latin American youth, championing the cause of the classical western ...