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The Tempest - Quotations > Critics + Productions > Flashcards

Critics + Productions Flashcards

1
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Riches

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Ambition

[Prospero’s] “forgiveness of others is universal and unconditional”

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Hebron

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Ambition

“His aim is to bring his enemies to realise their evil actions”

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Gibson

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Ambition

“Caliban is brutish and evil by nature”

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Laming

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Ambition

Caliban contains the seed of revolt

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5
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RSC Stratford upon Avon

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1978

Ambition

Stephano and Trinculo clown costume

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Tanner

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Ambition

[antonio and Sebastian are] “the real monsters of the play”

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7
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Northrop

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Ambition

[antonio and Sebastian are] “sunk in the hallucination of greed”

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McEvoy

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Caliban is a “product of violent enslavement”

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9
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Freestone production

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2023

Antonio and Sebastian beg on their knees for forgiveness

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Taymor film subversion

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2010

Prospera

Subversion of paternal love

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Gorrie production

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1980

Lack of love between Prospero and Ariel

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12
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Taymor film on Miranda

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Love

Gets in between Prospero and Ferdinand to protect him

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13
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1993 RSC

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Love

Ariel spits in Prospero’s face once he’s freed

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14
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MacReady production

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1838

Magic

Ariel’s costume - fairy costume hanging from a wire

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Mermaid theatre production

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1970

Magic

Ariel and caliban are victims of colonisation

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Thacker production

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1995

Magic

Prospero’s magic is omnipresent - he’s always on stage

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17
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Jacobi

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1982

Magic

Prospero’s struggle between omnipotence and humanity

18
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Barton

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Magic

“The storm contains no hint of the marvellous or extraordinary”

19
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Todd

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“Prospero controls the destiny of other characters”

20
Q

Howard

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Comedy

“Marriage is insistently the goal of every [shakespeare] comedy”

21
Q

Riga

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Comedy

“Stephano’s murder plot is based on folly rather than evil”

22
Q

1993 - S+T

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Comedy

Costuming - Trinculo big shoes and ventriloquist dummy, stephano beer belly and fake posh accent

23
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McFarland

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Comedy

“Gonzalo is a speaker of a certain truth”

24
Q

Donmar production

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2016

Comedy

Set in a prison

Are they ever truly free?

25
Q

Mason

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Comedy

“Ariel is the catalyst in getting Prospero to feel and forgive”

26
Q

MacDonald

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The play is about “the problem of power”

27
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Poole

A

Sebastian and Antonio are “real things of darkness”

28
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Hill

A

Sebastians “first instinct is always hedonistic”

29
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Todd (Alonso)

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Alonso emerges from the experience purified and repentant

30
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Sharpe

A

Every character is driven by an internal cry for freedom

31
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Ashe production

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2019

Cuts gonzalo’s utopia speech

32
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Green

A

“The tempest highlights the ugly nature of politics and power struggle”

33
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Herrin production

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2013

Sebastian and Antonio costuming is very ornate

34
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Kemode

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Learning is a major theme of the play

35
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Dryden production

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1667 (restoration era)

Prospero is a monarch who is ‘restored’ to his throne - special appeal to elite restoration audiences

36
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Shadwell production

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1674

Operatic production - to impress the courts who loved opera

Machinery, elaborate effects, spectacular staging, music

37
Q

20th century productions main theme

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Exploration of the play as a colonial experience

38
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Cesaire production

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1930s

Caliban and Ariel are both slaves

39
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Phelps production

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1847

Caliban was physically a monster but very human in behaviour

40
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Caliban : the missing link

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1873

Darwinian view of caliban - humanised aspects of behaviour but animalistic in portrayal

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