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The Tempest
The Tempest
Shakespeare, William
Published: 1611
Type(s): Plays
Source: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/
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About Shakespeare:
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet
and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the
world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of
Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long
narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major
living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18 he married
Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith.
Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part
owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men.
He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few
records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation
about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to
him were written by others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays
were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and
artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about
1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest examples in
the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances,
and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of
varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime, and in 1623 two of his former theatrical
colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included
all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's.
Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did
not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular,
acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a
reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry". In the twentieth century, his work
was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and perform-
ance. His plays remain highly popular today and are consistently performed and reinter-
preted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.
Source: Wikipedia
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• Hamlet (1599)
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• Macbeth (1606)
• Julius Caesar (1599)
• Othello (1603)
• King Lear (1606)
• Titus Andronicus (1590)
• Timon of Athens (1623)
• Coriolanus (1623)
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Part 1
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SCENE I. On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise of thunder and light-
ning heard.
Enter a Master and a Boatswain
Master
Boatswain!
Boatswain
Here, master: what cheer?
Master
Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely,
or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.
Exit
Enter Mariners
Boatswain
Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts!
yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to the
master's whistle. Blow, till thou burst thy wind,
if room enough!
Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others
ALONSO
Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master?
Play the men.
Boatswain
I pray now, keep below.
ANTONIO
Where is the master, boatswain?
Boatswain
Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your
cabins: you do assist the storm.
GONZALO
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Nay, good, be patient.
Boatswain
When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers
for the name of king? To cabin: silence! trouble us not.
GONZALO
Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.
Boatswain
None that I more love than myself. You are a
counsellor; if you can command these elements to
silence, and work the peace of the present, we will
not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you
cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make
yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of
the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out
of our way, I say.
Exit
GONZALO
I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he
hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is
perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his
hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable,
for our own doth little advantage. If he be not
born to be hanged, our case is miserable.
Exeunt
Re-enter Boatswain
Boatswain
Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Bring
her to try with main-course.
A cry within
A plague upon this howling! they are louder than
the weather or our office.
Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO
Yet again! what do you here? Shall we give o'er
and drown? Have you a mind to sink?
SEBASTIAN
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