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The Tempest - William Shakespeare
THE TEMPEST
by William Shakespeare
Wilder Publications, Inc.
Copyright © 2014
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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ISBN: 978-1-62755-695-8
Table of Contents
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I
ACT I. SCENE I. On a ship at sea; a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard
ACT I. SCENE II. The Island. Before PROSPERO’S cell
ACT II
ACT II. SCENE I. Another part of the island
ACT II. SCENE II. Another part of the island
ACT III
ACT III. SCENE II. Before PROSPERO’S cell
ACT III. SCENE II. Another part of the island
ACT III. SCENE III. Another part of the island
ACT IV
ACT V
ACT V. SCENE I. Before PROSPERO’S cell
EPILOGUE
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ALONSO, King of Naples
SEBASTIAN, his brother
PROSPERO, the right Duke of Milan
ANTONIO, his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan
FERDINAND, son to the King of Naples
GONZALO, an honest old counsellor
Lords
ADRIAN
FRANCISCO
CALIBAN, a savage and deformed slave
TRINCULO, a jester
STEPHANO, a drunken butler
MASTER OF A SHIP
BOATSWAIN
MARINERS
MIRANDA, daughter to Prospero
ARIEL, an airy spirit
Spirits
IRIS
CERES
JUNO
NYMPHS
REAPERS
Other Spirits attending on Prospero
SCENE: A ship at sea; afterwards an uninhabited island
ACT I
ACT I. SCENE I. On a ship at sea; a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard
Enter a SHIPMASTER and a BOATSWAIN
MASTER: Boatswain!
BOATSWAIN: Here, master; what cheer?
MASTER: Good! Speak to th’ mariners; fall to’t yarely, or
we run ourselves aground; bestir, bestir. Exit
Enter MARINERS
BOATSWAIN: Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly,
my hearts! yare, yare! Take in the topsail.
Tend to th’ master’s whistle. Blow till thou burst
thy wind, if room enough.
Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND
GONZALO, and OTHERS
ALONSO: Good boatswain, have care. Where’s the master?
Play the men.
BOATSWAIN: I pray now, keep below.
ANTONIO: Where is the master, boson?
BOATSWAIN: Do you not hear him? You mar our labour;
keep your cabins; you do assist the storm.
GONZALO: Nay, good, be patient.
BOATSWAIN: When the sea is. Hence! What cares these
roarers for the name of king? To cabin! silence! Trouble
us not.
GONZALO: Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.
BOATSWAIN: None that I more love than myself. You are
counsellor; if you can command these elements to
silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not
hand a rope more. Use your authority; if you cannot, give
thanks you have liv’d so long, and make yourself ready
in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so
hap.—Cheerly, good hearts!—Out of our way, I say.
Exit
GONZALO: I have great comfort from this fellow. Methinks
he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is
perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his hanging;
make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth
little advantage. If he be not born to be hang’d, our
case is miserable. Exeunt
Re—enter BOATSWAIN
BOATSWAIN: Down with the topmast. Yare, lower, lower!
Bring her to try wi’ th’ maincourse. [A cry within]
A plague upon this howling! They are louder than the weather or our office.
Re—enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO
Yet again! What do you here? Shall we give o’er, and
drown? Have you a mind to sink?
SEBASTIAN: A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,
incharitable dog!
BOATSWAIN: Work you, then.
ANTONIO: Hang, cur; hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker;
we are less afraid to be drown’d than thou art.
GONZALO: I’ll warrant him for drowning, though the ship were
no stronger than a nutshell, and as leaky as an unstanched
wench.
BOATSWAIN: Lay her a—hold, a—hold; set her two courses; off
to sea again; lay her off.
Enter MARINERS, Wet
MARINERS: All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost!
Exeunt
BOATSWAIN: What, must our mouths be cold?
GONZALO: The King and Prince at prayers!
Let’s assist them,
For our case is as theirs.
SEBASTIAN: I am out of patience.
ANTONIO: We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards.
This wide—chopp’d rascal—would thou mightst lie drowning
The washing of ten tides!
GONZALO: He’ll be hang’d yet,
Though every drop of water swear against it,
And gape at wid’st to glut him.
[A confused noise within: Mercy on us!
We split, we split! Farewell, my wife and children!
Farewell, brother! We split, we split, we split!]
ANTONIO: Let’s all sink wi’ th’ King.
SEBASTIAN: Let’s take leave of him.
Exeunt ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN
GONZALO: Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for
an acre of barren ground—long heath, brown furze, any
thing. The wills above be done, but I would fain die
dry death. Exeunt
ACT I. SCENE II. The Island. Before PROSPERO’S cell
Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA
MIRANDA: If by your art, my dearest father, you have
Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.
The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
But that the sea, mounting to th’ welkin’s cheek,
Dashes the fire out. O, I have