TheTempest
William Shakespeare’s
The Tempest
Generally regarded as
Shakespeare’s last play:
1611
Performed for King
James I and at the
marriage festivities of his
daughter Elizabeth
Source: William
Strachey’s account of the
shipwreck of the Sea
Venture in 1609
Paul Falconer Poole. A Scene from the
Tempest, 1856.
Prospero
Duke of Milan
Antonio
usurper
Miranda
Sycorax
Caliban
Alonso
Sebastian
King of Naples
Ferdinand
Ariel
Iris
Ceres
Juno
Nymphs
Gonzalo, Counselor
Trinculo, Jester
Stephano, Butler
Adrian, Francisco
Shipmaster, Boatswain, etc.
John William Waterhouse,
Miranda-The Tempest, c. 1916
“If by your art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them”
 Rulers and subjects
Themes
 Right relationship
 Responsibilities
 Master/Servant
 Revenge or mercy
 Sibling rivalry
 Commentary on European
exploration of new lands
 Utopianism
 Colonialism
 Imperialism
 “The Other”
 Nature of indigenous peoples
 The role of the artist
 Autobiographical?
Prospero by Lisa Iris
“The Other”
Caliban by Edmund Dulac
Ariel confronting the “three
men of sin” by Edmund Dulac
Edward A. Wilson
Other Tempests
Literary Adaptations of The Tempest
 Auden, W. H. "The Sea and the Mirror" (1944) on W.H. Auden:
[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/whauden.htm]
 Barnes, Charlotte (Mary Sanford) The Forest Princess, or Two Centuries Ago (play, online) (1844)
 Brathwaite, Kamau (1930-). "Caliban" (poem) sites on Brathwaite
 Brough, William and Robert Brough. The Enchanted Isle. 1848.
 Browning, Robert (1812-1889). Caliban upon Setebos, or Natural Theology in the
Island.
 Césaire, Aimé. A Tempest (Une Tempête, d'après La tempête de Shakespeare: adaptation
pour un théâtre nègre. Paris: Seuil, 1969.) Bibliography and links to Césaire
 Davenant, William and John Dryden. The Tempest or the Enchanted Island. 1670.
(play) ed. Jack Lynch. [http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/tempest.html]
 Dryden, John, William Davenant and Thomas Shadwell. The Tempest. 1674. (opera)
composers: Henry Purcell, John Bannister, Pelham Humphrey, Pietro Reggio, James
Hart, Matthew Locke.
 Duffet, Thomas. The Mock Tempest or the Enchanted Castle. 1675.
 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. "Caliban". Ferlinghetti, biography, some poems
 Homolka, Kurt. Die Wunderinsel (1958) Oper mit Ballet. Libretto (arrangement of
Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella)
 Hughes, Ted. (1930-1998) "Setebos". Ted Hughes Criticism page Johnson, Lemuel.
Highlife for Caliban
Literary Adaptations of The Tempest
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MacKaye, Percy. Caliban by the Yellow Sands. 1916. (play)
Malouf, David. Blood Relations. 1987. (play)
Murrell, John. New World. 1985.(play)
Nunez, Elizabeth, Prospero’s Daughter: A Novel. 2006.
Osment, Phillip. This Island's Mine. 1988. (play)
Plath, Sylvia (1933-1963) "Ariel" (and other poems;
Popular novels and romances: Boucher, Rita. The Would-Be Witch; James, Deanna. Acts of
Love; Kelly, Carla. Miss Grimsley's Oxford Career; Kidd, Elizabeth. My Lord Guardian,
commented by Osborne, Laurie, Romancing the Bard
Renan, Ernest. L'Eau de Jouvence. 1879.(play)
Schmidt, Arno. Caliban über Setebos. (short story) über Arno Schmidt
Schober, Franz von. Alfonso und Estrella. libretto (1821) (Franz Schubert)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. (1822) With a guitar, to Jane. aka. To a Lady, with a guitar. (Ariel to
Miranda)
Warner, Marina. Indigo. chapter 19; Indigo: Mapping the waters; interviews and articles
Wells, H. G. The Island of Dr Moreau (1896)
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Film Adaptations of The Tempest
 Taymor, Julie. (dir.) The Tempest. (USA, 2010) Helen Mirren as Prospera
 Bender, Jack. (dir.) The Tempest. (USA,1998) set in the Mississippi Bayous during
the Civil War
 Stangertz, Gören. (dir.) Stormen (Sweden, 1998)
 Sokolov, Stanislav. (dir.) The Tempest (Animation, Russia, 1992)
 Greenaway, Peter. (dir.) Prospero's Books (UK, 1991), John Gielgud as Prospero.
 Ählin, Per. (dir.) Resan till Melonia (Norw./Sweden 1989)
 Taymor, Julie. (dir.) The Tempest (USA, 1986)
 Woodman, William. (dir.) The Tempest (USA; 1983)
 Mazurski, John. (dir.) The Tempest (USA, 1982)
 Stanley, Audrey. (dir.) The Tempest (USA, 1980)
 Gorrie, John. (dir.) The Tempest (BBC, 1980)
 Jarman, Derek. (dir.) The Tempest (UK, 1979)
 Coleman, Basil. (dir.) The Tempest (UK, 1968)
 Schaefer, George. (dir.) The Tempest (USA, 1960) Richard Burton as Caliban.
 Atkins, Robert. (dir.) The Tempest (UK, 1956)
 Wilcox, Fred M. (dir.) The Forbidden Planet (science fiction 1956)
 Wellman, William (dir.) Yellow Sky (Western, USA 1948)
 Bower, Dallas. (dir.) The Tempest (UK, 1939)
 Thanhouser, Edwin (dir.) The Tempest (silent, USA 1911)