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Shakespeare Today: The Tempest - Theme of Appearance vs Reality
Watch this lesson today to discover how Shakespeare explores the tension between appearances and reality in The Tempest. See that Shakespeare is playing around with our imaginations, blurring the line between reality and fantasy on...
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Shakespeare Today: The Tempest - Act 4 Summary
Prospero blesses Ferdinand and Miranda’s love, and invites some beautiful and mysterious spirits over for a mystical dance-party. Suddenly, Prospero remembers that Caliban is out to assassinate him... Watch our summary of The Tempest:...
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Shakespeare Today: The Tempest - Act 3 Summary
Miranda and Ferdinand have fallen in love, and Caliban plots with his new friends to take down Prospero. Meanwhile, Prospero’s servant Ariel confronts the Italian nobles, terrifying them with a magic show to remember... Watch our summary...
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Shakespeare Today: The Tempest - Act 2 Summary
Ariel starts putting Prospero’s schemes into action, causing chaos among the shipwrecked nobles. Meanwhile, the ugly Caliban has made some new friends. Watch our summary of The Tempest: Act II to find out what happens.
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Shakespeare Today: The Tempest - Act 5 Summary
All of Prospero’s plans are coming together. He has taken revenge on the nobles, and Caliban’s plans are well and truly thwarted. Will Prospero continue to use his magic for vengeance? Or will he finally learn how to forgive? Watch our...
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Shakespeare Today: The Tempest - Act 1 Summary
The magician Prospero, stranded on a remote island, is out for revenge! He whips up a violent storm, shipwrecking some Italian nobles and their servants on the island. What kind of revenge plot has Prospero planned? Watch our summary of...
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Shakespeare Today: The Tempest - Plot Summary
On a magical island in the middle of nowhere, Prospero, ex-Duke of Milan, is stranded with his daughter Miranda. Their servants are two local spirits, the nasty Caliban and the loyal Ariel. One day, Prospero whips up a magical storm as...
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Shakespeare Today: The Tempest - Context
Watch this video to learn about Shakespeare’s fascinating world, and its influence on the play The Tempest. Watch the Jacobean era come to life and come to a deeper understanding of the Age of Discovery, colonialism, Shakespeare’s...
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English Essentials - Destroying Drama – Finer Points of Dramatic Analysis (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)
In this lesson, we’ll arm you with some more advanced knowledge about drama. Grab your notes as we guide you the ways playwrights build characterisation, use staging devices and the conventions of genre. Not to worry, we’ll revise...
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'If it scares you, then you have to do it:' Martha Henry takes on The Tempest
Martha Henry and Stratford Festival head Antoni Cimolino on putting the celebrated, veteran actor onstage as Prospero in The Tempest.
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Women take men's roles at Stratford Festival
Women are taking men's roles at the normally traditional Stratford Festival, as organizers look for more gender parity in arts and entertainment.
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Stratford Festival reimagines the Bard with women in the lead
With Martha Henry as Prospero and Seana McKenna as Julius Caesar, the Stratford Festival is challenging the concept of gendered roles in theatre.
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INTERVIEW Dame Helen Mirren on whether she thinks Shakespeare intended to write Prospero as a woman at the The Tempest Interview at London England. (Footage by WireImage Video/GettyImages)
INTERVIEW Dame Helen Mirren on whether she thinks Shakespeare intended to write Prospero as a woman at the The Tempest Interview at London England. (Footage by WireImage Video/GettyImages)
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Learn Zillion: Compare One Character's Point of View With Another's
In this lesson, you will learn how a complex character is developed by contrasting that character's perception of themselves with the perception of others. [7:03]