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The Tempest - Context
- Written 1610-1611
- Believed it was first performed at
court (1611) for the marriage of
Jame's daughter, Elizabeth
- Believed it was first performed at
court (1611) for the marriage of
Jame's daughter, Elizabeth
- Jacobean
era
- King James I
- 1566 - 1625
- 1566 - 1625
- King James I
- Tragicomedy
- Shakey's last play
- Ending - really about Shakey leaving his 'art' behind?
- Can be seen as aborted revenge tragedy spectacle
- Link to masques
- Link to masques
- Can be seen as aborted revenge tragedy spectacle
- Ending - really about Shakey leaving his 'art' behind?
- Shakey's last play
- Witchcraft
- King James - Daemonologie
Annotations:
- A treatise about witchcraft
- He presided over many witch trials.
Many people condemned.
- He believed witches caused the
storm which delayed him and his
new wife getting back to Scotland
- He believed witches caused the
storm which delayed him and his
new wife getting back to Scotland
- King James - Daemonologie
- Colonisation and fear of the Other
- Sycorax originates from Algiers in the play
Annotations:
- Algiers - North Africa
- Sycorax originates from Algiers in the play
- William Strachey
- 'Eyewitness Account of a Shipwreck
in the Bermudas'
- 'A most dreadful Tempest'
- By the mercy of God [we
were brought] safe into the
Island'
- 'A most dreadful Tempest'
- 'Eyewitness Account of a Shipwreck
in the Bermudas'
- Montaigne
'Of the
Cannibals'
- those who forgive
immediately are less
virtuous than those
who want to take
revenge, but struggle
against this desire
- those who forgive
immediately are less
virtuous than those
who want to take
revenge, but struggle
against this desire
- Francis Bacon
'Of Revenge'
- Revenge is 'a kind of wild justice'
- Those who take revenge
are equal to the person
who wronged them but
those who forgive are
superior
- Those who take revenge
are equal to the person
who wronged them but
those who forgive are
superior
- Revenge is 'a kind of wild justice'
- Machiavelli (The Prince)
- Antonio
- Machiavellian
Character
- Machiavellian
Character
- Antonio
- White Magic
('rough magic')
- Etymology of Names
- Prospero - 'prosperous'
- Miranda - 'worthy of admiration'
- Ferdinand - 'bold adventurer'
- Prospero - 'prosperous'
- John Dee
- Possible influence on the characters of Faustus and Prospero
- Marlowe likely knew Dee
- Marlowe likely knew Dee
- Magician at court of Queen Elizabeth
- Fell out of favour
in Jacobean era as
James I was
unsympathetic
towards magic
- Died in poverty 1608/9
- Possible influence on the characters of Faustus and Prospero
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