William Shakespeare’s "The Tempest": A Retelling in Prose
By David Bruce
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William Shakespeare’s "The Tempest" - David Bruce
William Shakespeare’s
The Tempest:
A Retelling in Prose
David Bruce
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Copyright 2014 by Bruce D. Bruce
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Teachers need not actually teach my retellings. Teachers are welcome to give students copies of my eBooks as background material. For example, if they are teaching Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, teachers are welcome to give students copies of my Virgil’s Aeneid: A Retelling in Prose and tell students, Here’s another ancient epic you may want to read in your spare time.
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Martha wrote, When I was working at Longaberger, I worked with a girl who had two children and was in the middle of a divorce. She was so worried about Christmas for her boys. I received a very nice Christmas bonus that year, and I went to my boss and started a donation fund for the girl. My boss told me later that she — my boss — delivered the money to the girl’s mother and father and told them not to tell her who brought the money for her. Months later the girl told me that the boys had the best Christmas that year, and she told me someone had brought money to her mom and dad for her, and she went to town and bought the boys Christmas. She never did know who did that for her. She was so thankful. I believe that I was the only one who donated to her, which was just fine.
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The doing of good deeds is important. As a free person, you can choose to live your life as a good person or as a bad person. To be a good person, do good deeds. To be a bad person, do bad deeds. If you do good deeds, you will become good. If you do bad deeds, you will become bad. To become the person you want to be, act as if you already are that kind of person. Each of us chooses what kind of person we will become. To become a good person, do the things a good person does. To become a bad person, do the things a bad person does. The opportunity to take action to become the kind of person you want to be is yours.
CAST OF CHARACTERS
ALONSO, King of Naples.
SEBASTIAN, Alonso’s brother.
PROSPERO, the rightful Duke of Milan. In Latin, prospero means I make happy, I make fortunate, I make successful.
ANTONIO, Prospero’s brother, the usurping Duke of Milan.
FERDINAND, son to the King of Naples.
GONZALO, an honest old Counselor.
ADRIAN and FRANCISCO, Lords.
CALIBAN, a savage and deformed Slave.
TRINCULO, King Alonso’s Jester. TRINCULO likes to drink more than enough. His name is based on the Italian trincare, which means To drink.
STEPHANO, a drunken Butler.
CAPTAIN of a Ship.
BOATSWAIN, pronounced Bosun.
SAILORS.
MIRANDA, daughter to Prospero. Her name is based on the Latin miror and means She who is to be admired
or She who is to be wondered at.
ARIEL, an airy Spirit.
IRIS, goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods and especially messenger of Juno, Queen of the gods. Played by a spirit.
CERES, goddess of fertility and agriculture, played by Ariel.
JUNO, Queen of the gods, played by a Spirit. She is the goddess of marriage.
HARPIES, birds with the face of a woman, played by Spirits.
NYMPHS, REAPERS, DOGS: played by Spirits.
CHAPTER 1
— 1.1 —
Thunder sounded and lightning flashed as a storm struck a ship at sea.
The Captain of the ship shouted, Boatswain!
Here I am, Captain. How goes it?
Good fellow, speak to the sailors and give them orders. All of us must get on with the work — and briskly — or else we will run aground. Hurry! Hurry!
Both the Captain and the Boatswain had a whistle around their necks. At times the sound of wind and waves would drown out human speech, and the sailors had been trained to get their orders from the sounds of the whistles.
The Captain exited, and some sailors came on deck and started working with the ropes.
The Boatswain said to the sailors, Good work, mates! Work with a good will, sailors! Quickly! Take in the topsail. Listen to the whistle for your orders.
He shouted at the storm, Blow as hard as you like, as long as we are on the open sea and not close to sand reefs or rocks!
Several passengers — members of the upper class — came on deck. They included Alonso, the King of Naples; Sebastian, Alonso’s brother; Antonio, who had stolen the Dukedom of Naples from Prospero, who was his brother; Ferdinand, Alonso’s son, who was a Prince; Gonzalo, an honest old counselor, and others.
King Alonso said, Good Boatswain, take care. Where’s the Captain?
To the sailors, King Alonso said, Be men now.
The Boatswain replied, Please, keep below. Do not be on deck now.
Antonio, Prospero’s brother, said, Where is the Captain, Boatswain?
The Captain’s whistle could be heard, giving orders to the sailors behind the mast. The Boatswain was in charge of the sailors before the mast.
The Boatswain replied to Antonio, Can’t you hear him?
To all the upper-class passengers, he said, You are interfering with our work. Stay in your cabins. You are assisting the storm, not us sailors.
Gonzalo, an old counselor, said, Good Boatswain, be calm.
I will be calm when the sea is calm,
the Boatswain said. Get below! Alonso is the King of Naples, but what do these roaring winds and waves care for the title of King? Go to your cabins and be quiet! The only people who should be on deck now are sailors!
Gonzalo was loyal to King Naples, right or wrong. He said, Good Boatswain, remember whom you have on board this ship.
The Boatswain had already made it clear that he was not impressed by his passengers’ titles and positions in society — certainly not when his life depended on competence in dealing with a storm at sea.
He said, I love none of the ship’s passengers more than I love myself. You are a counselor, so if your talents are useful now, put them to work. If you can command these winds and waves to be calm and if you can bring peace out of the current turmoil, we sailors will not handle any more ropes. If you can do these things, then do them. If you cannot do these things, then give thanks that you have lived so long, and go to your cabin below and prepare yourself both spiritually and physically for whatever misfortune may occur.
The Boatswain said to the sailors, Good work, mates,
and then he said to the upper-class passengers, Get out of our way.
The Boatswain left to look after another part of the ship, and Gonzalo said, "I receive great comfort from this Boatswain. I look at him and see no indication that he will die by drowning. No, indeed, but I do see every indication that he will die by hanging. I look in his face, and I see reflected in his eyes a gallows. That is good news for us. If he does not drown today, then we probably won’t drown. Stand fast, good Fate — do not let his destiny change. He who is born to be hanged shall never drown. The Fates spin the thread of life — in the Boatswain’s case, that thread is a rope. Let the rope that will hang the Boatswain be our anchor chain that will keep us safe since the anchor chain we have now does little good for us. If the Boatswain was