My first Shakespeare play was a #FolgerLibrary edition at Junior High School 104 #Baruch #NYC
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I find The Tempest wiki enlightening, broad, and blessedly devoid of academic blather. No one source inspired Tempest. May be Shakesp's last play. One of the most produced plays. John Gielgud considered greatest Prospero of 20th Century. etc. . . #thetempest_2025 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tem...
Cover of the novel Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Title page of the novel Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
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Book 2 of Canadian novels inspired by The Tempest.
The Hogarth Shakespeare.
wow. so much going on in this ending of Derek Jarman's 1979 Tempest. Singer Elizabeth Welch sings "Stormy Weather" to a cadre of sailor boys while Miranda and Ferdinand gaze on. #thetempest_2025 youtu.be/t8cTeGEGvc0?...
another amazing production. 1978. Italy. Last few minutes are very fine and put modern productions to shame. Gorgeous. (2.36.40 mark) #thetempest_2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGnL...
I know you Youngs love to rush on to the next thing, but I'm savoring my discovery of The Tempest and its mysteries. (WTH did Shakespeare mean by all this sturm und drang?) Here, Richard Burton is Caliban, Roddy McDowell Ariel in 1960 US TV version. Amazing performances. youtube. #thetempest_2025
“Now my charms are all o’erthrown,
And what strength I have’s mine own”
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„What's past is prologue.“ (Antonio,II,1, 251)
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Thanks Christina!
soon: Richard III ! 😊📚🫶
EPILOGUE
Spoken by Prospero
As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
Let your indulgence set me free.
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(19-20)
Caliban
What a thrice-double ass
Was I, to take this drunkard for a god,
And worship this dull fool.
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Act V s1 (295-297)
PROSPERO.
... Two of these fellows you
Must know and own: this thing of darkness I
Acknowledge mine.
. . .
ALONSO. I long
To hear the story of your life, which must
Take the ear strangely.
Act V s1 #TheTempest_2025 "And what strength I have's mine own."
#TheTempest_2025 Day 21, 7/8- Act V s1 from line 290 "STEPHANO. Every man shift for all the rest, and let no man take care for himself: for all is but fortune." to end of play.
Thanks for reading together! Hope to see y'all for #RichardIII_2025 on July 12, 2025. #Shakespeare #History
EPILOGUE. John Gielgud as Prospero. #thetempest_2025 youtu.be/vtuoNCfbnYM?...
EPILOGUE. Christopher Plummer as Prospero. #thetempest_2025 youtu.be/QRGwBARpPD0?...
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Alonso:
This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod,
And there is in this business more than nature
Was ever conduct of.
(5.1.286-288)
“O look, sir, look, sir! here are more of us!”
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MIRANDA. O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.
Act V s1 #TheTempest_2025 Like the Savage in Huxley's #BraveNewWorld , Miranda does not yet know the "civilization" that awaits her. Perhaps she'd stay on the island.
#TheTempest_2025 Day 20, 7/7- Act V s1 from line 189 "MIRANDA. Sweet lord, you play me false." to line 289 "PROSP. Some few odd lads that you remember not. [Enter Ariel, driving in Caliban, Stephano & Trinculo]"
Why we need the structure of comedy: because The Tempest's tempest is but a dream, a spell. A conceit, a longing. In real life a tempest has no happy ending, only a changed one. #thetempest_2025
HT to @thomasliam300.bsky.social : Simon Russell Beale performing the soliloquy from Act V. "I'll break my staff...I'll drown my book." Brilliant. #thetempest_2025 youtu.be/5dWEH57C16s?...
ILLUSTRATION: EDMUND DULAC
MIRANDA
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!
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V,1 (182-184)
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More conjuring of storms
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Option A it is (Richard III, John, Henry VIII).
Also, it makes sense to read King John who stood up to papal tyranny before Henry VIII flexed his muscles.
GONZALO. All torment, trouble, wonder, and amazement!
Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!
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#TheTempest_2025 Day 19, 7/6- Act V s1 from line 93 "ARIEL. Where the bee sucks, there suck I" to line 188 "PROSP. As much as me my dukedom. [Here Prosp. discovers Ferdinand & Miranda paying at chess.]"
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PROSPERO
For more assurance that a living prince
Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body;
And to thee and thy company I bid
A hearty welcome.
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V,1,108-111
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Simon Russell Beale was brilliant as Prospero in the 2017 Royal Shakespeare Company production
Simon Russell Beale as Prospero in RSC 2017 production of The Tempest.
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Prospero:
You brother mine, that entertained ambition,
Expelled remorse and nature, whom, with Sebastian,
Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong,
Would here have killed your king—I do forgive thee,
Unnatural though thou art.
(5.1.82-86)
1
PROSPERO. Now does my project gather to a head.
My charms crack not, my spirits obey, and Time
Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day?
. . .
By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make (1/2)
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