Background Info: The Tempest

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Background Info The Tempest
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Todays Agenda

• Benchmark/Independent Reading
• Dissection Day Lord of the Flies and art
  inspired by The Tempest
• Background Info for
• Shakespeares
• The Tempest

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Lord of the Flies
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Response to Art
Get ready for quick writes (a gut reaction to
each piece without worrying about what the artist
really intends for you to see).
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Come unto these yellow sands.
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Fairies at the shore
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Miranda
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Ariel
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Prospero
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Its a comedy! And a romancethe first romantic
comedy!
The Tempest was (probably) the last play I
wrotesome time between 1604 and 1611.
Some say I was inspired by the story of a
shipwreck in the New World the Sea Venture that
crashed near Bermuda in 1609.
I wrote 37(ish) plays, including histories,
tragedies, and comedies. Im keen on sonnets,
too.
Dante had terza rima I wrote in iambic
pentameter.
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So whats it all about?

• The play is a delirious blend of magic,
  romance, farce, and revenge where the mystical
  and the mundane co-exist side by side (Chisolm).
• good v. evil
• forgiveness v. revenge
• freedom v. captivity
• chaos v. order
• (colonizer v. colonized)
• (powerful v. powerless)