TwoTempests

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TwoTempests
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William Shakespeares The Tempest

• Generally regarded as Shakespeares last play
  1611
• Performed for King James I and at the marriage
  festivities of his daughter Elizabeth
• Source William Stracheys account of the
  shipwreck of the Sea Venture in 1609

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Prospero Antonio
Alonso Sebastian Duke of Milan
usurper King of Naples
Miranda
Ferdinand
Sycorax Ariel
Gonzalo, Counselor
Iris Trinculo,
Jester Ceres
Stephano, Butler
Juno Adrian, Francisco Caliban
Nymphs Shipmaster, Boatswain, etc.
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Themes

• Rulers and subjects
• 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?

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Aimé Césaire

• Born 1913 in Martinique, in the French Caribbean
• Active in politics, 1945-1993
• Poet and playwright
• 1968 Une Tempete
• A Tempest Adaptation for a Black Theatre

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Césaires A Tempest

• Differences in The Tempest and A Tempest
• Role of Caliban
• Relationship between Caliban and Ariel
• Role of Gonzalo
• Prosperos white magic
• Eshu

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Eshu

• Yoruban orisha
• Santeria Caribbean
• Candomble Brazil
• Trickster god
• Opener of ways
• Always called upon at the beginning of ceremonies

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Other Tempests
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Literary Adaptations of The Tempest

• Auden, W. H. "The Sea and the Mirror" (1944) on
  W.H. Auden http//www.kirjasto.sci.fi/whauden.ht
  m
• Barnes, Charlotte (Mary Sanford) The Forest
  Princess, or Two Centuries Ago (play, on-line)
  (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
• Gomez, Thomas. Stormbound
• Homolka, Kurt. Die Wunderinsel (1958) Oper mit
  Ballet. Libretto (arrangement of Schubert's
  Alfonso und Estrella)

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Literary Adaptations of The Tempest

• Hughes, Ted. (1930-1998) "Setebos". Ted Hughes
  Criticism page Johnson, Lemuel. Highlife for
  Caliban
• Johnson, Lemuel. Highlife for Caliban
• MacKaye, Percy. Caliban by the Yellow Sands.
  1916. (play)
• Malouf, David. Blood Relations. 1987. (play)
• Murrell, John. New World. 1985.(play)
• Nunez, Elizabeth, Prosperos 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

• Bender, Jack. (dir.) The Tempest. (USA set in
  the Mississippi Bayous during the Civil War)
  1998
• Stangertz, Gören. (dir.) Stormen (Sweden, 1998)
• Sokolov, Stanislav. (dir.) The Tempest
  (Animation, Russia, 1992)
• Greenaway, Peter. (dir.) Prospero's Books (I,
  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)