The Tempest Quotes

Quotes about The Tempest What they say is real ], with some reasonable trims and modifications. And with one notable exception, they speak the language beautifully, finding nuances of humor, feeling and fantasy packed into the prose and poetry of the script. Presiding over a motley, talented assembly is ] as Prospera, the former duchess of Milan and Ms. ]’s most provocative and persuasive act of revision. Switching the gender of ] — an aging wizard who is also his author’s last and fondest alter ego — is more than a gimmick. When the character is a woman, a central relationship in the play, between the magician and her doted-on child, ], sheds some of its traditional, patriarchal dynamic. Instead, a mother-daughter bond fraught with envy, protectiveness and identification blossoms into something newly rich and strange. … ] is, perhaps above all, the portrait — the self-portrait — of an artist on the verge of saying farewell to his art. By abjuring her “rough magic,” burying her magician’s staff and drowning her book of spells, Prospera elects to live in a world without supernatural possibilities; having demonstrated the power of art, she accepts the limits of that power and forsakes hubris for humility, something Ms. Taymor seems unable to do.

Prospera Be cheerful sir, our revels now are ended.

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Quotes about The Tempest I didn't really have a male actor that excited me in mind, and yet there had been a couple of phenomenal females — ] being one of them — who : "My God, does this play change? What happens if you make that role into a female role?" … We did a reading to see if it was just a gimmick, and it worked so beautifully. The potential was there to enhance the play for people who know it — and for others it will just seem natural.

Caliban Hast thou not dropped from ]?

Stephano Out of the moon, I do assure thee.

Prospera We are such as dreams are made on, and our little lives are rounded with a sleep.

Trinculo Misery acquaints a man with strange bed fellows.

Prospera I will plague them all, even to roaring!

Caliban This island is mine!