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	The Tempest (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unity of place is achieved by setting the play on a remote island and unity of time is achieved by having all the action take place within the space of a few hours, although unity of action is not precisely observed.
		The play opens as Prospero, having divined that his brother, Antonio, is on a ship passing close by the island (having returned from the nuptials of Alonso's daughter Claribel with the King of Tunis), has raised a storm (the tempest of the title) which causes the ship to run aground.
		Prospero commands so much power in the play because of his ability to use magic and to control the spirit Ariel, and with magic, he creates The Tempest itself, as well as controlling all the happenings on the island, eventually bringing all his old enemies to him to be reconciled.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Tempest_(play) (2616 words)

	Play Synopsis - The Tempest
		Lastly, the play is regarded historically as a myth of the national soul, Prospero signifying Britain's severe, yet tolerant, religious and political instincts, Ariel typifying her inventive and poetical genius, and Caliban her colonizing spirit.
		Psychologically, the tempest may be regarded as a condition of terrible internal disequilibrium, an intense ferment of the human consciousness which stirs the turbulent soul to its divinest depths and awakens it to the austere reality of the life of the spirit.
		The central thought of the play is that the whole of existence is probationary and progressive, that true freedom consists in the service of fellow-men, that the way to the attainment of the wisdom of Adepts is untiring and selfless persistence in the effort of self-education.
	www.onlineshakespeare.com /tempestsyn.htm (6481 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About The Tempest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Throughout the play's history, the play has been variously regarded as a highlight of Shakespeare's dramatic output, as a representation of the essence of human life, and as containing Shakespeare's most autobiographical character, in the form of Prospero the magician-ruler.
		For many years, The Tempest was regarded as one of Shakespeare's comedies; however, the presence of tragedy, comedy, and a good deal of romance means that the play does not easily fit into any of these three genres exclusively.
		Of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Tempest is most often grouped with The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, and Pericles?three other works that are also difficult to classify, because of their similar mix of comedy, drama, and romance.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/tempest/about.html (808 words)

	Introductory Lecture on the Tempest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		So, given this rich allusiveness to other plays, at the end of a course like this there is a natural tendency to want to link the concerns of the play with a celebration of the wonderful achievement we have been studying so far.
		It is not unusual to stage this play in such a way that the conventional comic structure of the ending is seriously undercut by the sense of sadness in Prospero, who is returning to Milan to die.
		If so, then the play might be offering a hope that, even if there is no certain answer about life's most important questions in the world of politics, there are important possibilities which can be realized (if only temporarily) in personal commitments to love and forgiveness (whether fostered by theatrical art or not).
	www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/eng366/lectures/tempest.htm (5728 words)

	The Tempest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The audience joined the characters of The 'Caribbean' Tempest in a journey where passion and love challenged the darker side of human nature in themes of sorcery, colonialism and slavery on an enchanted island of voodoo magic, towering jumbee birds and firebreathing baku spirits.
		The fact that the show was playing just a couple of miles from the statue and that the audience was predominantly Bajan gave an added resonance to Shakespeare’s most colonial of plays, and to the spirit of forgiveness and redemption that inhabits it.
		But she was serious about playing this one straight and has turned out to be a modal company member.
	www.holders.net /tempest.html (1402 words)

	Dating The Tempest
		Though Oxfordians consistently try to deny it, one of the biggest problems for their theory is The Tempest, which can be dated with virtual certainty as having been written between late 1610 and mid-to-late 1611, six to seven years after the death of the Earl of Oxford in 1604.
		The first recorded performance of The Tempest was at Court on November 1, 1611, allowing us to date the play's composition with remarkable accuracy to the roughly one-year period between the fall of 1610 and the fall of 1611.
		Quotations from the play are from The Riverside Shakespeare, edited by G. Blakemore Evans, with act, scene, and line numbers given; quotations from Strachey are from the edition in Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes, vol.
	shakespeareauthorship.com /tempest.html (5341 words)

	The Tempest (1979) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A film production of the Tempest of quality is thus like a visit to an old friend, dear to one's heart: each visit presents one with new perspective on the memory we had of the work.
		All of the villains in this play, whether they realize it or not, act in accordance to creating a more pain-filled, hell of a world - it is always in the interest of the oppressor to make life on Earth closer to hell.
		In the tempest, Prospero lives the play he is constructing, and we live it with him.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0081613 (807 words)

	The Tempest
		The division of plays into five acts is more apparent to the dramatist (to whom it gives an idea of how the play's narrative structure will appear in performance) than to the audience (though modern audiences often know act and scene numbers).
		This play is tightly organized, and its dénouement is implicit in the first act; we know that Prospero has a purpose for his enemies, and we see in III, iii how they are condemned for their sin and directed to live "a clear life ensuing".
		In this play a number of ideas are expressed in terms which recur, alone or in compounds, as well as being, in the world of the play, directly present.
	www.universalteacher.org.uk /shakespeare/tempest.htm (13712 words)

	The Tempest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was Shakespeare's last play written on his own, and for me at least, because of the complexity of its ideas, their universal nature (whatever particulars there may be), and the extraordinary theatrical balance and unity, it is the single most satisfying play ever written.
		Moreover, the Age of Reason is not that far away, taming the wildness of the wilderness: both the wild savage (Caliban) and the spirit of the forces of nature (Ariel and the spirits).
		The play becomes a metaphor for the theatre itself, and one realises that Prospero is not merely the stage-manager, he stands for Shakespeare himself, summing it all up and laying down his pen, his final play a summation of the world he has both created and been created by.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /mmorris/239/the_tempest.htm (2981 words)

	The Tempest
		Besides, the island in this play is in the Mediterranean.
		The first sound in this play is the "noise" of the storm, aural chaos (and the play is full of noises).
		For all the cult-of-sensibility's sanctimony about colonialism in this play, and although there is truth in the reading of the play as showing "the totally irreconcilable situation that arises when civilizations clash" (Wells 365), Caliban is reprehensible and a failure of the notion of the noble savage.
	www.wsu.edu:8001 /~delahoyd/shakespeare/tempest1.html (1700 words)

	THE TEMPEST by Shakespeare by Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford Upon Avon's Royal Shakespeare Theatre
		Mystical and mysterious yet romantic and comic, The Tempest is Shakespeare's most fascinating play and the last play he wrote on his own.
		Bold and visually arresting Noble's Tempest proved at Stratford a year ago, and bold and arresting it still is. But as often happens with RSC transfers, changes have occurred - some are more welcome than others.
		Until the play's end, his thoughts seem to have been formed long before his words....As usual with Noble's Shakespeare productions, the designer is Anthony Ward; as usual, the most memorable aspect of the production is its visual side.
	www.albemarle-london.com /rsc-tempest.html (2429 words)

	The Tempest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An adaptation of Shakespeare's play, by John Dryden and William D'Avenant
		An adaptation of the Shakespeare play to the interactive fiction format by Graham Nelson - The Tempest (computer game).
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Tempest (145 words)

	TheTempest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Phillips begins "The Tempest" bare-chested, sitting in a trunk in the middle of the pool, pulling ropes to raise the ship's sail (throughout the play, the trunk serves variously as the island and a ship).
		The play is accompanied by a continuous sound score by Phillips and Jeremy Wilhelm.
		In "The Tempest," Phillips works from the notion that the play is about a creator and his puppets, or in Jungian terms, about a man and his shadow selves.
	www.lamama.org /ArchivesFolder/20012002/TheTempest.htm (646 words)

	tempest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		These last four plays are shaped by a relatively new, more positive vision Shakespeare wished to express, at the center of which was a belief in the necessity for forgiveness.
		A play like Measure for Measure--one of the problem plays or bitter comedies--leaves us with a shared sense of identity with the guilty: we are all guilty, and we forgive each other because of that fact.
		That is why so many readers of The Tempest have found Prospero problematical: he is too pontifical, as when he goes on at length explaining events to Miranda and Ariel, or too combustible, as when he easily loses his temper when he meets with inattention or weakness.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~jmooney/renmats/tempest.htm (1512 words)

	The Tempest
		The Tempest is generally regarded as Shakespeare's last play, first performed in 1611 for King James I and again for the marriage festivities of Elizabeth, the King's daughter, to Frederick, the Elector Palatine.
		Since the play may be challenging to high school students, teachers will need to carefully provide students with background knowledge in order to insure that their reading and enjoyment of the play is as rich as possible.
		The main character, played by John Cassavetes, is a New York city architect with a midlife crisis who decides to move with his daughter to a Greek island.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /literature-and-drama/activity/4090.html?for_printing=1 (8882 words)

	Sibelius' Farewell: Thoughts on Sibelius' Silence and Dilemma, Prospero's art and Shakespeare's Final Play - INKPOT
		Sibelius' music for the play was commissioned after the successful premiere performances of his final and greatest symphony, the Seventh.
		The Tempest (1925), along with the tone poem Tapiola (1925-6), is the last of Sibelius' major works.
		Likewise, Shakespeare, coming to the frontiers of playwrighting with his final play, begs leave of his art by producing a play in which its central character controls an internal play.
	inkpot.com /classical/sibtempest.html (1466 words)

	The Tempest
		The Tempest, one of Shakespeare's last plays, is remarkable for its elaborate staging and close adherence to the neo-classical "Aristotelian" unities.
		A traditional approach to the play was to see it as Shakespeare's formal farewell to the stage; more modern readings see it as a more complex study in the use of power, especially in its overtones of colonialization.
		Source: this is one of the few plays where Shakespeare seems to have devised the plot himself.
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLT/plays/tempestsubj.html (121 words)

	Will Lyman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Shakespeare wrote The Tempest at the end of his career, and some critics have suggested that the beautiful poetry he put in Prospero's mouth was the playwright's own valedictory.
		That opened up the whole play to me. The play is about letting go, the difficulty in the act of forgiveness, a sacrificial act.
		The play is also about the act of passing the world to the next generation and a recognition of our human frailties -- that often we have the same faults as our enemies."
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/theater/00/07/20/WILL_LYMAN.html (660 words)

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		George C. Wolfe's direction of Shakespeare's play is bold and dramatic and guaranteed to arouse your emotions on several levels.
		Supported by a cast that turns in stellar performances, all elements of THE TEMPEST work together to enthrall you.
		THE TEMPEST is a masterful production and should not be missed.
	punchin.com /broadway/index/tempest.ll (197 words)

	The Tempest
		The principal characters in The Tempest are drawn with remarkable strength.
		An eminent critic has aptly remarked: "We find him only laughably horrible, and as a marvelous, though at bottom a feeble monster, highly interesting; for we foresee from the first that none of his threats will be fulfilled.
		The Tempest - An analysis of the play and characters.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/tempest001.html (1021 words)

	The Tempest Summary & Essays - William Shakespeare
		The romance genre is distinguished by the inclusion (and synthesis) of these tragic, comic, and problematical ingredients and further marked by a happy ending (usually concluding with a masque or dance) in which all, or most, of the characters are brought into harmony.
		The play was composed by Shakespeare as a multi-sensory theater experience, with sound, and especially music, used to complement the sights of the play, and all of it interwoven by the author with lyrical textual passages that overflow with exotic images, trifling sounds, and a palpable lushness.
		The richness of The Tempest as theater is matched by the extraordinary thematic complexity of its text.
	www.enotes.com /tempest (707 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Tempest (Arden Shakespeare S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage.
		However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban.
		This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1903436087 (1204 words)

	The Tempest
		Date: Sunday, 05 Apr 1998 12:22:49 -0400 Subject: The Tempest Regarding the ship and her crew in the Tempest, the "master" is the "captain." That's still true today, when the term "Captain" could be confusing (as a military rank, for example, a captain might not be the master of a vessel).
		One interesting "political" aspect of the play is that Shakespeare makes the politics so different from his other plays.
		We can imagine that if the Tempest were like almost any of his earlier plays, Shakespeare would have concentrated on the overthrow of Prospero, the machinations of Antonio, Alonso, Sebastian, Gonzalo, etc. So why does he set that 12 years in the past, unless to move it away from his usual political allegory.
	www.tnellen.com /cybereng/ebooks/t0406.html (664 words)

	Shakespeare Play Summaries/Synopses
		Listed below are links to summaries/synopses of all of Shakespeare's plays in pseudo-alphabetical order; pseudo because they go alphabetically until the history plays, which I have listed in the order that the play's plot takes place in history instead.
		Full texts of Shakespeare's plays are available from various sites including The Complete Works at MIT and The Collected Works of Shakespeare by Matty Farrow.
		Now all of the history plays, in order of the time in which the story takes place.
	www.alchemistmatt.com /shakespeare/shakespeare.html (148 words)

	Shakespeare's The Tempest at Absolute Shakespeare
		The Tempest begins with a huge storm battering a ship carrying Alonso, the King of Naples, Sebastian, (Alonso's brother), Ferdinand (Alonso's son), Antonio, Gonzalo and others.
		On an island near the storm, Prospero and his daughter Miranda are introduced.
		The famously sweet scene of Ferdinand playing chess with Miranda occurs.
	absoluteshakespeare.com /plays/tempest/tempest.htm (576 words)

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