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    How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest
    How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest
    How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest
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    How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest

    By Ashley Horace Thorndike and Rudyard Kipling

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateFeb 1, 2008
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      How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest - Ashley Horace Thorndike

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest, by

      Rudyard Kipling and Ashley H. Thorndike

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      Title: How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest

      Author: Rudyard Kipling

      Ashley H. Thorndike

      Release Date: June 27, 2010 [EBook #32991]

      Language: English

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      How Shakspere Came to Write the ‘Tempest’

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      IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK

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      How Shakspere Came to

      Write the ‘Tempest’

      BY

      Rudyard Kipling

      WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

      Ashley H. Thorndike

      Printed for the

      Dramatic Museum of Columbia University

      in the City of New York

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      INTRODUCTION AND NOTES COPYRIGHT 1916 BY

      DRAMATIC MUSEUM OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      Mr. Kipling’s brilliant reconstruction of the genesis of the ‘Tempest’ may remind us how often that play has excited the creative fancy of its readers. It has given rise to many imitations, adaptations, and sequels. Fletcher copied its storm, its desert island, and its woman who had never seen a man. Suckling borrowed its spirits. Davenant and Dryden added a man who had never seen a woman, a husband for Sycorax, and a sister for Caliban. Mr. Percy Mackaye has used its scene, mythology, and persons for his tercentenary Shaksperian Masque. Its suggestiveness has extended beyond the drama, and aroused moral allegories and disquisitions. Caliban has been elaborated as the Missing Link, and in the philosophical drama of Renan as the spirit of Democracy, and in Browning’s poem as a satire on the anthropomorphic conception of Deity.

      But apart from such commentaries by poets and philosophers, the poem has lived these many generations in the imaginations of

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