The Tempest: The Works of William Shakespeare [cambridge Edition] [9 Vols.]
1908
The Tempest: The Works of William Shakespeare [cambridge Edition] [9 Vols.]
1908
A storm at sea. A ship bearing a king, a usurping brother, and an old enemy. Wrecked on a remote island, they stumble into the domain of Prospero, a exiled duke who has spent twelve years mastering magic on this desolate shore with only his daughter Miranda for company. What follows is a masterwork of control and reckoning. Prospero manipulates his enemies through spirits and illusion, orchestrating their psychological torment until he confronts them with the truth of their betrayal. But the play's true complexity lies in the figures around him: the ethereal Ariel, trapped in service, and Caliban, the island's original inhabitor whom Prospero enslaved. The island becomes a crucible where power, colonialism, and forgiveness collide. In the end, Prospero must choose: vengeance or mercy. The answer defines not just his fate, but the very nature of his humanity. The Tempest endures because it asks what we do with power once we've achieved it, and whether true liberation is even possible.
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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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