the tempest - comiotto, persico
TRANSCRIPT
INTRODUCTION:1611
Last play
Change in tone
Magic, music, reconciliation
THE PLOT: FIRST ACT:
Tempest
Shipwreck
Enchanted island
Alonso, Ferdinand, Antonio
Prospero, Miranda; Ariel, Caliban
SECOND ACT:
Desperation of Alonso
Meeting of Ferdinand and Miranda
THIRD ACT:
Ferdinand is tested by Prospero
Meeting of Caliban, Trinculo, Stephano
The plan to kill Prospero
Ariel reports
FOURTH ACT:
Interlude
Prospero plans a punishment
FIFTH ACT:
reconciliation
Forgiveness
wild/exotic setting
Element of magic
THEMES:
_Pros._ Ye elves* of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves;And ye that on the sands with printless footDo chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly himWhen he comes back; you demi-puppets thatBy moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whose pastimeIs to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoiceTo hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid-Weak masters though ye be--I have bedimm'd*The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds.And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vaultSet roaring war: to the dread rattling thunderHave I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oakWith his own bolt; the strong-based promontoryHave I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd upThe pine and cedar: graves at my commandHave waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forthBy my so potent art. But this rough magicI here abjure*; and, when I have requiredSome heavenly music,--which even now I do,-To work mine end upon their senses, thatThis airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,And deeper than did ever plummet soundI'll drown my book. [_Solemn music._
Addressing to helves and demi-puppetsDue to his magic power:-dimmed the sun
-provoked war between sea and sky-hit the oak with lightning-shaked promontory-overturned pine and
cedar-revived dead men
Decision of leaving the magic
•Contemplation on the correctness of the magic
•Realisation of the non-knowledge of good and evil by men
•Simbolic meaning: - opposition between good and evil- warning against the dangers of the English expansion abroad
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