The Tempest
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Matthew Bell: The IoS Diary...the play, which, significantly, is called Caliban's Day. Caliban is the untamed figure in Shakespeare's last play, The Tempest, in which the Bard writes conspicuously about the nature of theatre. The Habit of Art is billed as being "as much... In this article: Frank Bruno, Charles Kidd, Caliban, The Tempest, and Alan Bennett |
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St. Petersburg Times | 2 days ago
Dunedin High's production of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' has a twist
...year here I wanted to start doing Shakespeare and the classics every other year." This year's production is William Shakespeare's The Tempest, which will be performed today and Saturday at the high school. It features a cast of 22 students...
In this article: Dunedin High School, William Shakespeare, Prospero, Miranda, Shakespeare's plays, and Once Upon a Mattress
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Zap2it | 4 days ago
If you like the 'Twilight' saga books, try...
...is Shakespeare's best romantic comedy. If supernatural fare is what attracts you to "Twilight," "Macbeth," "Hamlet" and "The Tempest" can all satisfy that interest. The Forbidden Game trilogy by LJ Smith If the Anita Blake series...
In this article: Twilight, Anita Blake, Anne Rice, LJ Smith, Bella Swan, Artemis, Dark Hunters, and Robin McKinley
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Independent.co.uk - Theater | 4 days ago
The Habit of Art, Lyttelton, National Theatre, London
...wanted to call the play Caliban's Day and you can see why. For just as The Sea and the Mirror, Auden's poetic meditation on The Tempest gives the last word to the low-class monster, so Bennett allows the rent-boy to speak up at the...
In this article: W.H. Auden, Alan Bennett, Benjamin Britten, Russell Harty, Nicholas Hytner, Richard Griffiths, Humphrey Carpenter, National Theatre, Death in Venice, and Thomas Mann
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The Australian | 5 days ago
Capoeira Spectacular Live Stage Show
...Lady Salsa, The Merchants of Bollywood and The Bar at Buena Vista. As well as directing Kylie Minogue in a Barbados production of The Tempest with members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Toby Gough has initiated many theatre-based social...
In this article: Brazil, Auckland, Wellington, Stage Show, 2014 World Cup, Christchurch, Civil War, Bosnian War, and Royal Shakespeare Company
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Miami Herald - Breaking News | 6 days ago
Actor Edward Woodward dies at 79
...Jamestown in 'A Brave Vessel' A BRAVE VESSEL: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's ``The Tempest.'' Hobson Woodward. Viking. 268 pages. $25.95. The fierce storm that leaves a small band of...
In this article: William Shakespeare, Paul Newman, Rachel Alexandra, Jess Jackson, Edward Woodward, Los Angeles County, and Beneficiary
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Slate Magazine - Books | 6 days ago
Philip Roth's The Humbling.
...many great late works have come in quartets. Think of Shakespeare's final four plays, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest, considered a series because they are all rather chilly and self-consciously theatrical;...
In this article: Philip Roth, Richard Strauss, Four Last Songs, Exit Ghost, Indignation, Everyman, Judith Shulevitz, and Stage fright
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The Tennessean | November 13, 2009
Spelling bees catch on with Nashville barflies
In this article: William Shakespeare and Nashville
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Centre Daily Times | November 06, 2009
Broadway finds its 'Spider-Man' in Reeve Carney
The 26-year-old performer has appeared in several films including Taymor's upcoming adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest," in which he plays Ferdinand. The cast also includes Evan Rachel Wood as Mary Jane Watson, Parker's girl friend,...
In this article: Spider-Man, Broadway, Julie Taymor, Green Goblin, The Edge, and Bono
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Sunday Mirror | November 06, 2009
QUIZWORD CROSSWORD
...Love and After The Rain (5) 17 Gene ---, World Heavyweight boxing champion 1926-28 (6) 21 Man-monster in the Shakespeare play The Tempest (7) 22 D.L. ---, England Test cricketer who scored an innings of 262 n.o. against West Indies...
In this article: William Shakespeare, Coromandel Coast, Madras, Kathmandu, and India
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Times Online | November 01, 2009
Peter Needham: National Theatre actor
It was in 1970 that Needham joined the NT and became a stalwart of the company for 15 years. He was in acclaimed productions - The Tempest and The Misanthrope in particular - at the Old Vic before the company moved to the South Bank. He...
In this article: Peter Hall, Tamburlaine, National Theatre, Hamlet, Cheek by Jowl, Touchstone, The Romans in Britain, and Albert Finney
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The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, estimated to be written in 1610–11, (although some researchers have argued for an earlier dating). The play's protagonist is the banished sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, who initially uses his magical powers to punish his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore. The entire play takes place on an island under his control whose native inhabitants, Ariel and Caliban, respectively aid or hinder his work. While listed as a comedy when it was initially published in the First Folio of 1623, many modern editors have since re-labeled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances.
No obvious single source has been found from which Shakespeare may have derived his plot. However, the play does seem to draw on several then-contemporary accounts of shipwrecks in the New World, as well as the works of Michel de Montaigne and Ovid's Metamorphoses. The play's basic structure reflects that of the then-popular Italian commedia dell'arte. It is one of two Shakespearean plays which follow the neoclassical three unities (the other is The Comedy of Errors). Around the 1950s and 60s, The Tempest attracted much attention from post-colonial critics for its portrayal of Ariel's and Caliban's reactions to foreign control of their island.
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