The Tempest
By William Shakespeare and Mint Editions
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Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan, who was disposed by his brother Antonio and forced to flee the country with his young daughter, Miranda. For years, they have occupied a remote island that’s suddenly disturbed by his brother’s return.
A ship carrying a group of passengers including King Alonso and Antonio, the Duke of Milan, crash on an isolated island. The land has been home to Prospero, Antonio’s brother who is also the rightful duke. Prospero has used magic to bring the men to him where he plans to enact his revenge. But he must navigate the romance between his daughter Miranda, and the king’s son, Ferdinand, as well as the growing resentment of his manservant Caliban.
The Tempest centers a family in crisis alongside a budding love story. It’s a captivating tale full of magic and striking visuals that amplify the characters’ internal conflict. The play was famously adapted for film in 2010 with Oscar-winner Helen Mirren as Prospera, a female version of Prospero.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.
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Reviews for The Tempest
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I’m not even a little scholarly so this was read and reviewed from purely an entertainment standpoint.While I like a bit of magic, the way it’s done here is the sort I struggle with, I like rules, I like parameters on magic/powers rather than feeling like the author or in this case the playwright can use it at any time to take the easy way out of any corner they’ve written the story into, I guess to me it makes the narrative feel somewhat manipulated rather than fully earned. Plus I mean if there are no limits to what Prospero can do with the magic and spirits or whatever else at his disposal then how did he even end up shipwrecked and why didn’t he leave the island eons ago and reclaim his position of power? I wish there had been more to the insta-romance as given the animosity between the families there was more to explore in the dynamics of this relationship. Where this worked best for me was in the scheming and conniving, those moments held my interest even if ultimately all of it seemed to resolve just a little too easily.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The first time through I felt as if nothing much happened in this play, but on a re-read, I like it better. I think I need to watch a performance or two for the full effect.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A moderately amusing play, with what were probably musical interludes, and some dancing. Magician finally executes a small revenge, and marries off his daughter. I saw a stage production with a one-armed actor playing Prospero quite effectively.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Back on solid footing after the last two or three plays. I quite enjoyed this one despite all the songs (Arkangel is terrible with these), and the massive info-dumpy beginning.
Overall, I think it was the magic in general, and Ariel in particular that sold this one for me. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is part of a project to update some of Shakespeare's plays to make them more accessible to modern audiences while keeping the essential nature and structures of the original work. Cavander does an outstanding job at this. While reading a play is not the same as seeing it performed - and thus any review limited in that aspect - I believe he gained clarity without losing anything from the original. Now I would like to see it performed.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's Shakespeare. Really, what else can I say?
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A great play. Never forget Sir Patrick Stewart in the title role. This version includes: Forward, Intro, essay on The Tempest in performance (through 1984), description of the Globe, essay on Shakespeare's sources (with excerpts), annotated bibliography, memorable lines.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dramatized audio recordings of are difficult for to listen to because there are so many minor characters. This one was a bit more manageable.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Even a genius is allowed to be average once in a while. Reportedly the last play Shakespeare wrote on his own, I can't help but wonder if he mailed it in on this. Maybe he needed the money? Maybe he was fulfilling a contract for one more play, much like Hitchcock did with the abhorrent movie Jamacia Inn, his last British production before moving to Hollywood. Whatever the case, The Tempest was neither romantic enough to make me fall in love, tragic enough to make me sad or funny enough to make me laugh. But, it is Shakespheare so even his meh efforts are better than most, but still. Not up to his standards.
I read along with the text while I listened to the audio version, a practice I highly recommend. I wish I could have done that in high school. I'll definitely suggest immersion reading to my children as they enter high school and discover Shakespeare. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Being Shakespeare's last play, The Tempest is a masterful piece in which he uses Prospero as a stand-in for himself within a play full of the magic of stagecraft and his position as playwright.Using all the mystical techniques at his disposal (theatre), Prospero the magician (playwright) writes his tale of revenge as a ship containing his treasonous brother sails near enough to the island for him to set the stage at long last.The Tempest also stands as a magnificent tale even without the allegory. The rightful Duke of Milan (Prospero) is set adrift along with his daughter by his treacherous brother, but manages to survive on an island for twelve years with the help of his magic and the spirits of the island he has impressed into his service. Now, the King of Naples sails home along with Prospero's brother and he can finally seek his revenge, making sure to set his daughter into a happy role as well before things are done.I just love the way this play uses the stage to show Prospero's magic and Ariel's abilities. It truly is a great work by one of the masters.This particular volume I picked up from a local library sale and intend to add it to my Little Free Library for someone else to discover.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazingg.. It has the ability to enchant every reader through its imagination. The part that I liked less is how (most probably unwittingly I suppose) did Shakespeare show how did Colonisation worked and the attitude of the colonised towards the coloniser. Overall, it gave me a feel of an old tale finishing up. All the negative characters were simply puppets in the hands of Prospers and it was in the understanding of the endurance that we were able to enjoy the present conquests of Prospero. Overall, a wonderful read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Published 1998.
On this re-reading I noticed that the word "brave" was used a few times in the movies that I watched (Taymor, 2010 & Jarman 1979).
I like this word. It generates a very good feeling in my heart. This word often makes me think of someone who has a quality to face something difficult with the strength of heart / mind / body... Does not take me much to feel a respect and admiration for this person...
I also come to know that the word "brave" describes something wonderful, admirable in appearance...
And I just got curious to see how often the word "brave" was used in "The Tempest". And I started reading the play to look for the word "brave" and "bravely", and every time I found one of these words, I put a post-it note to the page to keep track of it... No, I did not use any fancy software to sort out the words or count the words... The work was done manually... Though I tried to be as faithful and accurate as possible, there might be a few occasions that I missed finding these words...
It looks like there are 11 occasions that the words "Brave" or "Bravely" were mentioned...
The rest of this review can be found elsewhere. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I read this book in university in my first year and really liked reading it.
I loved Miranda, she's such a sassy character. Maybe even a little bit feminist? She's certainly defiant enough. Of course, like a lot of other people, I prefer Shakespeare's comedies (or at least, his lighter plays) to his tragedies. I love the island and how Shakespeare uses it as a microcosm to explore the possibilities of a world that is turned upside down by magic.
I love some of the description that Shakespeare uses in this piece - he talks about a victim of a shipwreck, saying that his eyes are pears and... how this person has been transformed into a part of the ocean life.
This is a beautiful, magical little play full of witty little quips and Shakespeare's usual messages about human folly and social commentary.
5 stars. c: - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5O que dizer?
"O, wonder!
How many godly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in 't!". - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5love it!!!!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was the first Shakespeare play I ever read - from an old white-covered paperback I had when I was 9 years old. I probably didn't understand it very well back then. I REALLY liked the title, though.
Now, it's still good stuff.
For me, supplementing my reading with a viewing of Helen Mirren as Prospera... magnified my enjoyment of this book tremendously. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I enjoyed this more than other mandatory Shakespeare reads in college because this was required for the best English class ever: "Making Monsters". Ms. Cook's guidance was not annoying like Corum's.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book a bit different was
From oth'rs of The Bard I've read.
More with of the fantastic
F'r sooth, and f'r the head.
'Twas an amalgam of stylings.
Or mashup, if thou wouldst.
With manipulations, calculations
machinations, Prospero couldst.
All through, as always all
The language play is dear,
And Merrily doth I findeth it
When bent towards William's ear.
7 books of the smith have I read, what, ho!
And now if thou wilt excuseth me, I have 30 more to go. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Wizards, man, who knows.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Saw a magnificent production of this at Nottingham Playhouse. The shipwreck took place before the beginning proper. While we the audience were prevented from entering, the duke of milan and his fellows got swept from the foyer into the auditorium which was roaring orange light. Everything went quiet. Then we were allowed in to see Prospero on stage in a totally serene blue stage.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A very visual play -- it is difficult to read because I think it really needs to be seen for impact. Other than Miranda and Prospero, the characters seemed to blend together; they weren't that well-defined in their differences ... except for the monstrous Caliban, of course. Some nice passages -- "We are such stuff as dreams are made on."
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5His weakest work.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A strange but moving work, performed here by a wonderful set of players.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a genuinely good work of drama, which I had to read for my Intro. to Drama class. This is one of those works of Shakespeare that has been done in a multitude of forms and variations, so it is quite likely that everyone has a rough idea of the story. Still, you really cannot replace the original. It's a bit odd, but quite good fun as well. As to the edition itself, I found it to be greatly helpful in understanding the action in the play. It has a layout which places each page of the play opposite a page of notes, definitions, explanations, and other things needed to understand that page more thoroughly. While I didn't always need it, I was certainly glad to have it whenever I ran into a turn of language that was unfamiliar, and I definitely appreciated the scene-by-scene summaries. Really, if you want to or need to read Shakespeare, an edition such as this is really the way to go, especially until you get more accustomed to it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It is so-said Shakespeare's last play. Very clear plots attracted me as my first peek at English literature.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I will start this review by saying I liked this play a lot more after I had time to sit and digest it. I knew from the start that I was going to hate Prospero, which does not leave much hope for a favorable opinion because he's behind everything that happens in the play. Prospero plays a good victim, but he's an amazing manipulator. If you can get past that, you will love this story. Characteristic if Shakespeare, The Tempest's pages are full of tragedy, humor, Romance, murder plots, revenge, and a smattering of mysticism. Short, dense, and enjoyable.4 stars.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/53½ stars - I found I had some trouble in parts with following the action just reading this rather than seeing a performance. I also found Prospero's sudden reconciliation with his brother rather unconvincing.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 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 speech, "We are such stuff as dreams are made on," is second maybe only to "All the world's a stage" in crystallizing Shakespeare's philosophy (and better, poetically); and there's Miranda's line, "O brave new world, that has such people in't!" - these and others are among the best lines Shakespeare wrote; and the feel of the play, the atmosphere - that magical island, populated by beasts and wizards, the evocation of a world we were still exploring - it sticks with you, even though, as I said, dramatically speaking, almost nothing happens.
And Caliban! Arguably the only memorable character - Prospero is cool, and Ariel differs from Puck, but is no Puck, and the others are just placeholders, a virtuous maid here, a villainous uncle there - but Caliban, that sniveling, backstabbing, savage would-be rapist, searching for a God whose boots need licking - he's a tremendous find. (And what made me love Tennyson.) Caliban's right up there with Iago.
In some ways, this play is all flash. But what a flash! - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5For 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. Great premise, great setting, great characters with witty dialogue, but why, Prospero? Why do you relent so easily? Ferdinand, what do you see in Miranda? What was the point of it all, Shakespeare? It wasn't clear. These characters just could not convince me of this world.
The ending was classic. C-L-A-S-S-I-C. It seems “The Man” knew he was retiring. Having the magician, Prospero—possibly a reflection of Shakespeare himself—address the audience was brilliant. He explains his mission was to entertain, begs pardon for all his wrongs, and asks to be set free. Loved it.
If only the rest of the play could have been so affecting and clever. Nonetheless, I thank The Man for his entertainment, forgive him his wrongs, and set him free. Run, Shakespeare run. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is my second read through of the play. I'm still not necessarily a fan; the way that Prospero gives blanket forgiveness to Alonso and Antonio seems forced, even if I have a better understanding of why he did it. In addition, the subplot with Sebastian and Antonio's attempt on the king's life goes nowhere. Prospero is still incredibly unlikeable as a main character.
As far as this specific version goes, it has to be one of my favorite editions in terms of how it handles footnotes. Most versions have ALL notes either lumped into the bottom, or on the facing page to the play. It makes it difficult sometimes to find what you're looking for without disturbing the flow of your reading. This book relegates short notes (one or two word translations of the Renaissance word into modern English) to the left of the line it occurs in, and longer footnotes and explanations to the facing page. Aside from an uncomfortable amount of white space on each page, it is an excellent edition.
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The Tempest - William Shakespeare
ACT I
Scene I
On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.
Enter a SHIP-MASTER and a BOATSWAIN.
MAST.: Boatswain!
BOATS.: Here, master: what cheer?
MAST.: Good, speak to the mariners: fall to’t, yarely, or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir. (Exit)
Enter Mariners.
BOATS.: Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to the master’s whistle. Blow, till thou burst thy wind, if room enough!
Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others.
ALON.: Good boatswain, have care. Where’s the master?
Play the men.
BOATS.: I pray now, keep below.
ANT.: Where is the master, boatswain?
BOATS.: Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your cabins: you do assist the storm.
GON.: Nay, good, be patient.
BOATS.: When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: silence! trouble us not.
GON.: Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.
BOATS.: None that I more love than myself. You are a 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 lived 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)
GON.: 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 hanged, our case is miserable. (Exeunt)
Re-enter Boatswain.
BOATS.: Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Bring her to try with main-course. (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?
SEB.: A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!
BOATS.: Work you, then.
ANT.: Hang, cur! hang, you whoreson, insolent noise-maker.
We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art.
GON.: I’ll warrant him for drowning; though the ship were no stronger than a nutshell, and as leaky as an unstanched wench.
BOATS.: 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!
BOATS.: What, must our mouths be cold?
GON.: The king and prince at prayers! let’s assist them,
For our case is as theirs.
SEB.: I’m out of patience.
ANT.: We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards:
This wide-chapp’d rascal,—would thou mightst lie drowning
The washing of ten tides!
GON.: He’ll be hang’d yet,
Though every drop of water swear against it,
And gape at widest 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!
)
ANT.: Let’s all sink with the king.
SEB.: Let’s take leave of him. (Exeunt Ant. and Seb.)
GON.: 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 a dry death. (Exeunt)
Scene II
The island. Before PROSPERO’S cell.
Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA.
MIR.: 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 the welkin’s cheek,
Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffer’d
With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel,
Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,
Dash’d all to pieces. O, the cry did knock
Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perish’d!
Had I been any god of power, I would
Have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere
It should the good ship so have swallow’d and
The fraughting souls within her.
PROS.: Be collected:
No more amazement: tell your piteous heart
There’s no harm done.
MIR.: O, woe the day!
PROS.: No harm.
I have done nothing but in care of thee,
Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing
Of whence I am, nor that I am more better
Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
And thy no greater father.
MIR.: More to know
Did never meddle with my thoughts.
PROS.: ’Tis time
I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand,
And pluck my magic garment from me.—So:
(Lays down his mantle)
Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort.
The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch’d
The very virtue of compassion in thee,
I have with such provision in mine art
So safely order’d, that there is no soul,
No, not so much perdition as an hair
Betid to any creature in the vessel
Which thou heard’st cry, which thou saw’st sink. Sit down;
For thou must now know farther.
MIR.: You have often
Begun to tell me what I am; but stopp’d,
And