Critics + Productions Flashcards
Riches
Ambition
[Prospero’s] “forgiveness of others is universal and unconditional”
Hebron
Ambition
“His aim is to bring his enemies to realise their evil actions”
Gibson
Ambition
“Caliban is brutish and evil by nature”
Laming
Ambition
Caliban contains the seed of revolt
RSC Stratford upon Avon
1978
Ambition
Stephano and Trinculo clown costume
Tanner
Ambition
[antonio and Sebastian are] “the real monsters of the play”
Northrop
Ambition
[antonio and Sebastian are] “sunk in the hallucination of greed”
McEvoy
Caliban is a “product of violent enslavement”
Freestone production
2023
Antonio and Sebastian beg on their knees for forgiveness
Taymor film subversion
2010
Prospera
Subversion of paternal love
Gorrie production
1980
Lack of love between Prospero and Ariel
Taymor film on Miranda
Love
Gets in between Prospero and Ferdinand to protect him
1993 RSC
Love
Ariel spits in Prospero’s face once he’s freed
MacReady production
1838
Magic
Ariel’s costume - fairy costume hanging from a wire
Mermaid theatre production
1970
Magic
Ariel and caliban are victims of colonisation
Thacker production
1995
Magic
Prospero’s magic is omnipresent - he’s always on stage
Jacobi
1982
Magic
Prospero’s struggle between omnipotence and humanity
Barton
Magic
“The storm contains no hint of the marvellous or extraordinary”
Todd
“Prospero controls the destiny of other characters”
Howard
Comedy
“Marriage is insistently the goal of every [shakespeare] comedy”
Riga
Comedy
“Stephano’s murder plot is based on folly rather than evil”
1993 - S+T
Comedy
Costuming - Trinculo big shoes and ventriloquist dummy, stephano beer belly and fake posh accent
McFarland
Comedy
“Gonzalo is a speaker of a certain truth”
Donmar production
2016
Comedy
Set in a prison
Are they ever truly free?
Mason
Comedy
“Ariel is the catalyst in getting Prospero to feel and forgive”
MacDonald
The play is about “the problem of power”
Poole
Sebastian and Antonio are “real things of darkness”
Hill
Sebastians “first instinct is always hedonistic”
Todd (Alonso)
Alonso emerges from the experience purified and repentant
Sharpe
Every character is driven by an internal cry for freedom
Ashe production
2019
Cuts gonzalo’s utopia speech
Green
“The tempest highlights the ugly nature of politics and power struggle”
Herrin production
2013
Sebastian and Antonio costuming is very ornate
Kemode
Learning is a major theme of the play
Dryden production
1667 (restoration era)
Prospero is a monarch who is ‘restored’ to his throne - special appeal to elite restoration audiences
Shadwell production
1674
Operatic production - to impress the courts who loved opera
Machinery, elaborate effects, spectacular staging, music
20th century productions main theme
Exploration of the play as a colonial experience
Cesaire production
1930s
Caliban and Ariel are both slaves
Phelps production
1847
Caliban was physically a monster but very human in behaviour
Caliban : the missing link
1873
Darwinian view of caliban - humanised aspects of behaviour but animalistic in portrayal
