the tempest - comiotto, persico

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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