Jan 8, 2009

The Tempest | The Tempest

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Author: William Shakespeare
First Published: 1623
Type of Work: Drama
Type of Plot: Fantasy
Time of Work: Fifteenth century
Genres: Drama, Fantasy
Subjects: Magic or magicians, Love or romance, Exile or expatriates, Storms, Servants, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Fifteenth century, Shipwrecks, Hallucinations or illusions, Italy or Italians
Locales: Islands

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Enchanted island. Remote home of the rightful duke of Milan, Prospero, as well as his daughter Miranda and his slave Caliban. Presumably the almost deserted island is in the Mediterranean Sea, but it resembles the tropical islands of even more remote seas around the world that European navigators were beginning to discover during William Shakespeare’s time. Europeans were coming to expect far-off islands to be home to strange creatures and peoples, such as Prospero’s islander slave, Caliban. To the Europeans, remote tropical islands also seemed like earthly...

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The Tempest | The Tempest

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