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    The Tempest (Golden Deer Classics)
    The Tempest (Golden Deer Classics)
    The Tempest (Golden Deer Classics)
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    The Tempest (Golden Deer Classics)

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    The Tempest is a comedy written by William Shakespeare. It is generally dated to 1610-11 and accepted as the last play written solely by him, although some scholars have argued for an earlier dating. While listed as a comedy in its initial publication in the First Folio of 1623, many modern editors have relabelled the play a romance.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOregan Publishing
    Release dateMay 5, 2017
    ISBN9782377871209
    The Tempest (Golden Deer Classics)
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

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      Shakespeare's Tempest was his final masterpiece. It is magical to me, both when I read about it and see live productions. Some of Shakespeare's greatest characters can be found in this play.
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      His weakest work.

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    The Tempest (Golden Deer Classics) - William Shakespeare

    The Tempest

    William Shakespeare

    Table of Contents

    The Tempest

    Act I

    SCENE I. On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

    SCENE II. The island. Before PROSPERO'S cell.

    Act II

    SCENE I. Another part of the island.

    SCENE II. Another part of the island.

    Act III

    SCENE I. Before PROSPERO'S Cell.

    SCENE II. Another part of the island.

    SCENE III. Another part of the island.

    Act IV

    SCENE I. Before PROSPERO'S cell.

    Act V

    SCENE I. Before PROSPERO'S cell.

    Act I

    SCENE I. On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning 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

    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

    A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,

    incharitable dog!

    Boatswain

    Work you then.

    ANTONIO

    Hang, cur! hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!

    We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art.

    GONZALO

    I'll warrant him for drowning; though the ship were

    no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an

    unstanched wench.

    Boatswain

    Lay her a-hold, a-hold! set her two courses off to

    sea again; lay her off.

    Enter Mariners wet

    Mariners

    All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost!

    Boatswain

    What, must our mouths be cold?

    GONZALO

    The king and prince at prayers! let's assist them,

    For our case is as theirs.

    SEBASTIAN

    I'm out of patience.

    ANTONIO

    We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards:

    This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou mightst lie drowning

    The washing of ten tides!

    GONZALO

    He'll be hang'd yet,

    Though every drop of water swear against it

    And gape at widest to glut him.

    A confused noise within: 'Mercy on us!'— 'We split, we split!'—'Farewell, my wife and children!'— 'Farewell, brother!'—'We split, we split, we split!'

    ANTONIO

    Let's all sink with the king.

    SEBASTIAN

    Let's take leave of him.

    Exeunt ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN

    GONZALO

    Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an

    acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any

    thing. The wills above be done! but I would fain

    die a dry death.

    Exeunt

    SCENE II. The island. Before PROSPERO'S cell.

    Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA

    MIRANDA

    If by your art, my dearest father, you have

    Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.

    The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,

    But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,

    Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered

    With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel,

    Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,

    Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock

    Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd.

    Had I been any god of power, I would

    Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere

    It should the good ship so have swallow'd and

    The fraughting souls within her.

    PROSPERO

    Be collected:

    No more amazement: tell your piteous heart

    There's no harm done.

    MIRANDA

    O, woe the day!

    PROSPERO

    No harm.

    I have done nothing but in care of thee,

    Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who

    Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing

    Of whence I am, nor that I am more better

    Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,

    And thy no greater father.

    MIRANDA

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