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The Tempest by William Shakespeare, which tells the story of Prospero, the former Duke of Milan, who was usurped by his brother Antonio and marooned on an island with his daughter Miranda. When the men who betrayed him sail past the island, Prospero commands Ariel, a nature-spirit he has bound to his will, to raise a mighty tempest and shipwreck them. While he harnesses Ariel’s powers to subject the noblemen to a number of trials, a drunken jester and butler encounter Prospero’s other slave, Caliban, who tries to convince them to murder him. Over the course of the play, Shakespeare explores a number of weighty topics and incorporates elements drawn from many genres, creating a play that is as multifaceted as it is timeless.
The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s best-known problem plays, and has been performed frequently since it was first published in the early 17th century.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHT AND POET
Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564.Died in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1616.Notable works:King Lear (1608), playA Midsummer Night’s Dream (1600), playRichard III (1597), playWilliam Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet, and is generally considered the most influential writer in the English language. He worked in several modes including comedy, history, tragedy, the narrative poem and the sonnet, and was active during an extraordinary flowering of creativity during the Elizabethan Renaissance – not just as a playwright, but also as an actor and as the eventual co-owner of the Globe theatre in London. Shakespeare spent 20 years in London, where he wrote all of his famous works and staged them with his acting company, The King’s Men, and others. Shakespeare’s plays are universal in their scope, as they explore all the complexities of the human experience, from politics to love and death. Played constantly all around the world and revered for their complex characters and deft use of language, Shakespeare’s plays are now considered one of the crowning jewels of English and international literary heritage.
THE TEMPEST
TRAGICOMIC DRAMA
Genre: playReference edition: Shakespeare, W. (2011) The Tempest. London: The Arden Shakespeare.1stedition: 1623Themes: magic, parents and children, theatricality, power, loyalty, ageing, forgivenessThe Tempest is believed to be Shakespeare’s final solo-written play. It was first performed on 1 November 1611 and was published later the same year.
The play takes place on a remote island, and follows the magician Prospero, ex-Duke of Milan and the situation that arises on his island when Antonio, his usurping brother, finds himself shipwrecked there with his companions. The drama seems to reflect Shakespeare’s later meditations on mortality, his own role as a playwright and the nature of theatre itself. This is also Shakespeare’s only play which explicitly addresses the subject of colonialism, which Elizabethan England was starting to engage in throughout the Americas. Like most of Shakespeare’s work, The Tempest has been the subject of many different interpretations, and is considered one of his strangest, least definable and most difficult works.
