Sigh. Shakespeare plays are hard to read. They really are. They're olde English, they're poetry, AND .. well, they're PLAYS. Plays are hard to read when they're in modern English. So are poems, sometimes. And then to top it off with having to do mental translations, and sometimes having to rely on a...
I never thought I would rate Shakespeare as just "ok," but there, I've done it. I had seen a movie called The Tempest when I was pretty young (though after trying to find it now, I'm thinking I dreamed it) and it really excited me and I always wanted to see it again. I assumed that it was at least ...
What I love about The Tempest is the magical isle, its airy spirits and earthy Caliban. There is also some great commentary on politics, colonialism, and human ambition.I forget when I'm not reading it how much of it consists of some dudes being assholes.
I have always felt a little slighted about my middle name - Prosper - even though it is felicitous in the most literal sense of the word, I have always been a bit put out by it's oddness. I inherited it from a great grandfather, or some other, who I have never met. But as the years of easy childish ...
It begins with a storm and ends with a promise of “calm seas, auspicious gales” Act 5, Scene 1, ln 314. Prospero breaks his staff and drowns his book and in so doing suggests Shakespeare’s own impending exit from the world of playwriting.Highly original, with no known source like most (if not all)...
For the past year, the fates have been telling me I needed to read William Shakespeare's final work The Tempest. Alright fates, I did it! Now you can shove it!!!Honestly, I was disappointed. There was so much potential in this one, but it was as though Shakespeare, “The Man,” was giving up. Grea...
I read The Tempest for a Shakespeare course, and it turned out to be one of my favorites. The mythological aspects are intriguing and, though I find some of Shakespeare's plays drag on and are less than accessible to the modern reader, if you're looking to enjoy some Shakespeare, this is a good choi...
The Tempest is almost a wisp of a thing. There's little plot and almost no character development. It's like a magic trick: you blow into your hand, and a cloud of flame pops up, and a dove flies out of it, everyone claps. So the play is the spectacle, and the magic is the language. Prospero's sp...
What with a desert island and sorcery and spirits and a real live monster (Caliban) born of a witch, I'd expected to be more enchanted by this story. To be fair, I'm sure it's a lot more fun to see it performed than to read. I just wasn't all that thrilled with it, and I found some of the passages h...
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