The Tempest
1908
The opening crash of a ship against rocks. A storm that feels like the sea itself has been summoned by unseen hands. This is how Shakespeare bids farewell to the stage, conjuring a world where magic and governance blur, where a father and daughter alone on a remote island hold the fates of kings and sailors in their hands. Prospero was once Duke of Milan, until his brother Antonio conspired with the King of Naples to steal his dukedom and set him adrift. Now, twelve years later, he rules his island with sorcery. With his spirit servant Ariel and his deformed servant Caliban, he has shaped a world of tempests and illusions. But when his enemies wash ashore, Prospero faces the ultimate question: revenge or forgiveness? The answer will determine whether his daughter Miranda ever knows a world beyond this enchanted shore.
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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.””
— William Shakespeare
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.””
— William Shakespeare
“What's past is prologue.””
— William Shakespeare
“Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.””
— William Shakespeare
“Me, poor man, my libraryWas dukedom large enough.””
— William Shakespeare
“O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't!””
— William Shakespeare
“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.Sometimes a thousand twangling instrumentsWill hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,That, if I then had waked after long sleep,Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,The clouds methought would open, and show richesReady to drop upon me; that, when I waked,I cried to dream again.””
— William Shakespeare
“Full fathom five thy father lies;Of his bones are coral made;Those are pearls that were his eyes:Nothing of him that doth fade,But doth suffer a sea-changeInto something rich and strange.Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them,”
— William Shakespeare
“This thing of darkness IAcknowledge mine.””
— William Shakespeare
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