Prospero the tempest biography books

Widely considered to be the last play Shakespeare authored by himself, it is an extremely hard play to understand and to stage. It crosses literary genres, with elements of comedy and elementts of tragedy (thus for some authors, a tragicomedy, or even a pastoral tragicomedy at that), elements of masque and some even see elements of the Commedia dell'Arte -in despair some critics have created a new category for the late Shakespeare including The Tempest: a romance. As Frank Kermode, the editor of the edition of the Arden Shakespeare's The Tempest elegantly puts it:

The romantic story is, then, the mode in which Shakespeare made his last poetic investigation into the supernatural elements in the human soul and in human society [He deliberately] chose the pastoral tragicomedy as the genre is which this inquiry is best pursued.

Kermode also considers that

It has rarely seemed sufficient to discuss the play at the level of plot alone, and there are many allegorical interpretations, some of them assuming a political, some an autobiographical, and some a religious purpose and key.

The themes of the play according to Kermode can be synthesized as:

The main opposition is between the worlds of Prospero's Art, and Caliban's Nature. Caliban is the core of the pla

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Prospero

Character in William Shakespeare's The Tempest

For other uses, see Prospero (disambiguation).

Fictional character

Prospero (PROS-pər-o) is a fictional character and the protagonist of William Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Character

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Twelve years before the play begins, Prospero is usurped from his position as the rightful Duke of Milan by his brother Antonio, who puts Prospero and his three-year-old daughter Miranda to sea on a "rotten carcass" of a boat to die. Prospero and Miranda survived and found exile on a small island inhabited mostly by spirits. Prospero learned sorcery from books, and uses it to protect Miranda.

Before the play begins, Prospero freed the magical spirit Ariel from entrapment within "a cloven pine". Ariel is beholden to Prospero after he is freed from his imprisonment inside the pine tree. Prospero then takes Ariel as a slave. Prospero's sorcery is sufficiently powerful to control Ariel and other spirits, as well as to alter weather and even raise the dead: "Graves at my command have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth, by my so potent Art." - Act V, scene 1.

On the island, Prospero becomes master of the monster Caliban, the son of a malevolent witch named Sycorax, and forces Caliban into submission by punishi

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Act I

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