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TheTempest

TheTempest. William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Generally regarded as Shakespeare’s last play: 1611 Performed for King James I and at the marriage festivities of his daughter Elizabeth Source: William Strachey’s account of the shipwreck of the Sea Venture in 1609.

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TheTempest

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  1. TheTempest

  2. William Shakespeare’s The Tempest • Generally regarded as Shakespeare’s last play: 1611 • Performed for King James I and at the marriage festivities of his daughter Elizabeth • Source: William Strachey’s account of the shipwreck of the Sea Venture in 1609 Paul Falconer Poole. A Scene from the Tempest, 1856.

  3. ProsperoAntonioAlonso SebastianDuke of Milanusurper King of Naples MirandaFerdinand Sycorax ArielGonzalo, CounselorIris Trinculo, Jester CeresStephano, Butler Juno Adrian, Francisco Caliban NymphsShipmaster, Boatswain, etc.

  4. John William Waterhouse,Miranda-The Tempest, c. 1916 “If by your art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them”

  5. Themes • Rulers and subjects • Right relationship • Responsibilities • Master/Servant • Revenge or mercy • Sibling rivalry • Commentary on European exploration of new lands • Utopianism • Colonialism • Imperialism • “The Other” • Nature of indigenous peoples • The role of the artist • Autobiographical? Prospero by Lisa Iris

  6. Caliban by Edmund Dulac “The Other”

  7. Ariel confronting the “three men of sin” by Edmund Dulac Edward A. Wilson

  8. Other Tempests

  9. Literary Adaptations of The Tempest • Auden, W. H. "The Sea and the Mirror" (1944) on W.H. Auden: [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/whauden.htm] • Barnes, Charlotte (Mary Sanford) The Forest Princess, or Two Centuries Ago (play, on-line) (1844) • Brathwaite, Kamau (1930-). "Caliban" (poem) sites on Brathwaite • Brough, William and Robert Brough. The Enchanted Isle. 1848. • Browning, Robert (1812-1889). Caliban upon Setebos, or Natural Theology in the Island. • Césaire, Aimé. A Tempest (Une Tempête, d'après La tempête de Shakespeare: adaptation pour un théâtre nègre. Paris: Seuil, 1969.) Bibliography and links to Césaire • Davenant, William and John Dryden. The Tempest or the Enchanted Island. 1670. (play) ed. Jack Lynch. [http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/tempest.html] • Dryden, John, William Davenant and Thomas Shadwell. The Tempest. 1674. (opera) composers: Henry Purcell, John Bannister, Pelham Humphrey, Pietro Reggio, James Hart, Matthew Locke. • Duffet, Thomas. The Mock Tempest or the Enchanted Castle. 1675. • Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. "Caliban". Ferlinghetti, biography, some poems • Homolka, Kurt. Die Wunderinsel (1958) Oper mit Ballet. Libretto (arrangement of Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella) • Hughes, Ted. (1930-1998) "Setebos". Ted Hughes Criticism page Johnson, Lemuel. Highlife for Caliban

  10. Literary Adaptations of The Tempest • MacKaye, Percy. Caliban by the Yellow Sands. 1916. (play) • Malouf, David. Blood Relations. 1987. (play) • Murrell, John. New World. 1985.(play) • Nunez, Elizabeth, Prospero’s Daughter: A Novel. 2006. • Osment, Phillip. This Island's Mine. 1988. (play) • Plath, Sylvia (1933-1963) "Ariel" (and other poems; • Popular novels and romances: Boucher, Rita. The Would-Be Witch; James, Deanna. Acts of Love; Kelly, Carla. Miss Grimsley's Oxford Career; Kidd, Elizabeth. My Lord Guardian, commented by Osborne, Laurie, Romancing the Bard • Renan, Ernest. L'Eau de Jouvence. 1879.(play) • Schmidt, Arno. Caliban über Setebos. (short story) über Arno Schmidt • Schober, Franz von. Alfonso und Estrella. libretto (1821) (Franz Schubert) • Shelley, Percy Bysshe. (1822) With a guitar, to Jane.aka. To a Lady, with a guitar. (Ariel to Miranda) • Warner, Marina. Indigo. chapter 19; Indigo: Mapping the waters; interviews and articles • Wells, H. G. The Island of Dr Moreau (1896) .

  11. Film Adaptations of The Tempest • Bender, Jack. (dir.) The Tempest. (USA; set in the Mississippi Bayous during the Civil War) 1998] • Stangertz, Gören. (dir.) Stormen (Sweden, 1998) • Sokolov, Stanislav. (dir.) The Tempest (Animation, Russia, 1992) • Greenaway, Peter. (dir.) Prospero's Books (I, 1991), John Gielgud as Prospero. • Ählin, Per. (dir.) Resan till Melonia (Norw./Sweden 1989)] • Taymor, Julie. (dir.) The Tempest (USA, 1986) • Woodman, William. (dir.) The Tempest (USA; 1983) • Mazurski, John. (dir.) The Tempest (USA, 1982) • Stanley, Audrey. (dir.) The Tempest (USA, 1980) • Gorrie, John. (dir.) The Tempest (BBC, 1980) • Jarman, Derek. (dir.) The Tempest(UK, 1979) • Coleman, Basil.(dir.) The Tempest (UK, 1968) • Schaefer, George. (dir.) The Tempest (USA, 1960) Richard Burton as Caliban. • Atkins, Robert. (dir.) The Tempest(UK, 1956) • Wilcox, Fred M. (dir.) The Forbidden Planet (science fiction 1956) • Wellman, William (dir.) Yellow Sky (Western, USA 1948) • Bower, Dallas. (dir.) The Tempest (UK, 1939) • Thanhouser, Edwin (dir.) The Tempest (silent, USA 1911)

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