TheTempest

William Shakespeare’s The Tempest

Generally regarded as Shakespeare’s last play: 1611

Performed for King James I and at the marriage festivities of his daughter Elizabeth

Source: William Strachey’s account of the shipwreck of the Sea Venture in 1609

Paul Falconer Poole. A Scene from the Tempest, 1856.

Prospero Antonio Alonso Sebastian Duke of Milan usurper King of Naples

Miranda Ferdinand

Sycorax Ariel Gonzalo, Counselor Iris Trinculo, Jester Ceres Stephano, Butler Juno Adrian, FranciscoCaliban Nymphs Shipmaster, Boatswain, etc.

“If by your art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them”

John William Waterhouse, Miranda-The Tempest, c. 1916

Themes Rulers and subjects

Right relationship Responsibilities Master/Servant

Revenge or mercy Sibling rivalry

Commentary on European exploration of new lands Utopianism Colonialism Imperialism

“The Other” Nature of indigenous peoples

The role of the artist Autobiographical?

Prospero by Lisa Iris

Caliban by Edmund Dulac“The Other”

Ariel confronting the “three men of sin” by Edmund Dulac

Edward A. Wilson

Other Tempests

Literary Adaptations of The Tempest Auden, W. H. "The Sea and the Mirror" (1944) on W.H. Auden:

[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/whauden.htm] Barnes, Charlotte (Mary Sanford) The Forest Princess, or Two Centuries Ago (play,

on-line) (1844) Brathwaite, Kamau (1930-). "Caliban" (poem) sites on Brathwaite Brough, William and Robert Brough. The Enchanted Isle. 1848. Browning, Robert (1812-1889). Caliban upon Setebos,

or Natural Theology in the Island. Césaire, Aimé. A Tempest (Une Tempête, d'après La tempête de Shakespeare: adaptation

pour un théâtre nègre. Paris: Seuil, 1969.) Bibliography and links to Césaire Davenant, William and John Dryden. The Tempest or the Enchanted Island. 1670.

(play) ed. Jack Lynch. [http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/tempest.html] Dryden, John, William Davenant and Thomas Shadwell. The Tempest. 1674. (opera)

composers: Henry Purcell, John Bannister, Pelham Humphrey, Pietro Reggio, James Hart, Matthew Locke.

Duffet, Thomas. The Mock Tempest or the Enchanted Castle. 1675. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. "Caliban". Ferlinghetti, biography, some poems Homolka, Kurt. Die Wunderinsel (1958) Oper mit Ballet. Libretto (arrangement of

Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella) Hughes, Ted. (1930-1998) "Setebos". Ted Hughes Criticism page Johnson, Lemuel.

Highlife for Caliban

Literary Adaptations of The Tempest MacKaye, Percy. Caliban by the Yellow Sands. 1916. (play) Malouf, David. Blood Relations. 1987. (play) Murrell, John. New World. 1985.(play) Nunez, Elizabeth, Prospero’s Daughter: A Novel. 2006. Osment, Phillip. This Island's Mine. 1988. (play) Plath, Sylvia (1933-1963) "Ariel" (and other poems; Popular novels and romances: Boucher, Rita. The Would-Be Witch; James, Deanna. Acts of

Love; Kelly, Carla. Miss Grimsley's Oxford Career; Kidd, Elizabeth. My Lord Guardian, commented by Osborne, Laurie, Romancing the Bard

Renan, Ernest. L'Eau de Jouvence. 1879.(play) Schmidt, Arno. Caliban über Setebos. (short story) über Arno Schmidt Schober, Franz von. Alfonso und Estrella. libretto (1821) (Franz Schubert) Shelley, Percy Bysshe. (1822) With a guitar, to Jane. aka. To a Lady, with a guitar. (Ariel to

Miranda) Warner, Marina. Indigo. chapter 19; Indigo: Mapping the waters; interviews and articles Wells, H. G. The Island of Dr Moreau (1896)

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Film Adaptations of The Tempest Taymor, Julie. (dir.) The Tempest. (USA, 2010) Helen Mirren as Prospera Bender, Jack. (dir.) The Tempest. (USA,1998) set in the Mississippi Bayous during the Civil

War Stangertz, Gören. (dir.) Stormen (Sweden, 1998) Sokolov, Stanislav. (dir.) The Tempest (Animation, Russia, 1992) Greenaway, Peter. (dir.) Prospero's Books (UK, 1991), John Gielgud as Prospero. Ählin, Per. (dir.) Resan till Melonia (Norw./Sweden 1989) Taymor, Julie. (dir.) The Tempest (USA, 1986) Woodman, William. (dir.) The Tempest (USA; 1983) Mazurski, John. (dir.) The Tempest (USA, 1982) Stanley, Audrey. (dir.) The Tempest (USA, 1980) Gorrie, John. (dir.) The Tempest (BBC, 1980) Jarman, Derek. (dir.) The Tempest (UK, 1979) Coleman, Basil. (dir.) The Tempest (UK, 1968) Schaefer, George. (dir.) The Tempest (USA, 1960) Richard Burton as Caliban. Atkins, Robert. (dir.) The Tempest (UK, 1956) Wilcox, Fred M. (dir.) The Forbidden Planet (science fiction 1956) Wellman, William (dir.) Yellow Sky (Western, USA 1948) Bower, Dallas. (dir.) The Tempest (UK, 1939) Thanhouser, Edwin (dir.) The Tempest (silent, USA 1911)