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Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, raises a tempest that drives his enemies ashore onto his enchanted island, so as to forestall a rebellion, to arrange for his daughter to meet a prince, and, more importantly, to relinquish his magical powers.
Characters: Prosepero, Miranda, Caliban
Critical sites about The Tempest
- Ambroise Pari’s Des Monstres as a Possible Source for Caliban
- http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-1/kahatemp.html
- This paper argues that a Renaissance text on fanciful creatures was Shakespeare’s source for the description of Caliban in The Tempest.
- Contains: Historical Context, Character Analysis
- Author: Jeffrey Kahan
- From: Early Modern Literary Studies 3.1 (1997): 4.1-11
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- Evidence of the New Orthodoxy: Sound in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest
- http://www.editorskylar.com/tempest.html
- A short essay that aims to “provide an example for students of the formalistic critical approach to literature.”
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: Skylar Hamilton Burris
- From: 1999
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- Progeny: Prospero’s Books, Genesis and The Tempest
- http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v1no2/marx.htm
- Compares and contrasts Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the film Prospero’s Books, and the Biblical book of Genesis.
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: Steven Marx
- From: Renaissance Forum: An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies September 1996; vol. 1 no. 2
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