The Tempest E-Book

William Shakespeare

• Herausgeber: Passerino
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Educational version of the famous masterpiece The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. 

Pasquale Vaudo is a dean professor of English language and literature in high schools, and specialized in Shakespearean studies.
 

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Pasquale Vaudo

The tempest

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ISBN: 9788893456142

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Table of contents

Ai miei cari...

The tempest

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Ai miei cari...

The tempest

The Tempest

Abridged version of the original play

Main Characters

Alonso, King of Naples. He believes his son has died and is overjoyed to later find him.

Alonso repents for the pain he caused Prospero in the past.

Sebastian, Alonso's brother.

He is easily led to plan Alonso’s murder.

Prospero, the right Duke of Milan.

After his brother, Antonio, seized his title and property, Prospero was exiled with his daughter and luckily landed on an island in the Mediterranean Sea.

Antonio, Prospero’s Brother and Usurper.

He had plotted against Prospero years earlier and now wants to convince Sebastian to murder his brother, the king of Naples.

Miranda, Prospero’s Daughter. Miranda Prospero's daughter.

She has been on the island with her father for 12 years — since she was 3 years old.

Ferdinand, Son of the King of Naples.

During the storm, he was separated from the rest of the king's party, met Miranda, and fell in love with her.

Gonzalo, an honest old Counsellor,who saves Prospero's and Miranda's lives when they are exiled.

Ariel, an airy Spirit, assists Prospero in seeking retribution over his enemies.

Caliban, Prospero’s savage and deformed slave.

He is the offspring of the witch Sycorax and the devil.

Figure 1.

The main characters of the tempest: Prospero and Miranda.

Plot summary (FCE)

While you read the plot summary write the correct tense of the verbs in brackets.

Alonso, the king of Naples, (is returning) from his daughter’s wedding in Tunis. He (is accompanied) by his son, Ferdinand, his brother, Sebastian, and Antonio, the Duke of Milan. An old Milanese courtier, Gonzalo, (is) also on board. The ship (is wrecked) in a storm and all the passengers and crew (are thrown) into the furious sea.

Prospero, the former Duke of Milan, and his fifteen year-old daughter, Miranda, (are Watching) the shipwreck from an island. He (tells) her, for the first time, how they (reached) the island. Twelve years before, when he (had been) Duke of Milan, his brother Antonio, (had usurped) him, but with Gonzalo’s help he (had escaped) in a small boat with his baby daughter, Miranda, and his library of books about magic.

They (had landed) on an island in the Mediterranean Sea and Prospero (had turned) the only inhabitant, Caliban, a deformed and savage creature, into his slave, after Caliban (had attempted) at Miranda’s virginity .

There (are) also spirits on the island. One of them, Ariel, (had been imprisoned) in a tree trunk by Caliban’s mother, the witch, Sycorax, who had then died.

Prospero (used) his magic abilities to free him and he (made) the spirit swear to serve him.

The ship’s passengers (are cast) up on the island unharmed, and even their clothes are not wet or damaged. Alonso (believes) his son to be dead but Ferdinand (has landed) on another part of the island. He (encounters) Miranda and they (fall) in love at first sight. He is the first man, apart from her father and Caliban that she has ever seen. Prospero (puts) Ferdinand to work manually, controlling all his movements with magic. Ariel (pesters) Prospero for his freedom and Prospero (promises) it once he has done some things for him, regarding the newcomers.

Ariel (leads) the party towards Prospero’s cell. During this journey Antonio and Sebastian (plan) to kill Alonso so that Sebastian can be king. Two other members of the party, Trinculo, the court jester, and Stephano, a boisterous butler, are also wandering about on the island. Caliban (recruits) them to help him overthrow Prospero.

They all get drunk then set off for Prospero’s cell. Ariel (reports) the plot to Prospero.

Prospero (has released) Ferdinand and given his blessing to the marriage of the two young people. When the three would-be usurpers arrive at his cell they are distracted by some brightly coloured clothes that have been hung out for them, then they (are chased) away by a band of spirits who have taken on the form of dogs.

Ariel brings the party to the cell. Prospero (renounces) his magic and (reveals) himself. He (forgives) his brother and prepares to return to Milan to resume his dukedom. Miranda and Ferdinand are betrothed. Sailors arrive and announce that the ship hasn’t been wrecked after all, and is safely anchored off the island. Ariel is set free. There is a final celebration of their reunion.

Read this summary plot and choose the right tense of the given in brackets.

Episode 1

Episode 1 . The shipwreck.

Your opinion

a. Refer to the figure and describe what it features.

b. Have you ever been caught into a storm/ heavy rain/ flooding ? If it is the case, describe what and how you felt ?

Research

Use a monolingual dictionary and write the definition of master and boatswain.

Figure 2.

A sailing ship caught into a heavy storm. Some members of the crew are on deck.

Episode 1 . The Shipwreck. (Act 1 – Scene 1)

On a ship at sea the shipmaster, the boatswain and the mariners manoeuvre during a fiery storm. Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Ferdinand, Gonzalo, and others.

Alon. Good boatswain, have care. Where’s the master ?

Boats. I pray now, keep below.

Ant. Where is the master, boson ?

Boats. Do you not hear him ? You mar our labour: keep your cabins: you do assist thestorm.

Gon. Nay, good, be patient.

Boats. When the sea is. Hence ! What caresthese roarers for the name of king?

To cabin:silence! Trouble us not.

Gon. Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.

Boats. None that I more love than myself.

You are a counsellor: if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peaceof the present, we will not hand a rope more;use your authority: if you cannot, give thanksyou have lived so long, and make yourself readyin your cabin for the mischance of the hour, ifit so hap (pen). – Cheerly, good hearts! - Out of ourway, I say.

Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him;his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast,good Fate, to his hanging! Make the rope of hisdestiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage!If he be not born to be hanged,our case is miserable. (Exeunt).

Boats. Down with the topmast! lower, lower!

Bring her to try with main-course. [ A cry within.

A plague upon this howling! they are louder than the weather, or our office. –

Re-enter Sebastian, Antonio, and Gonzalo.

Yet again ? what [...]