Interpretations through time Flashcards

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1667 William Davent and John Dyrden production

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  • Resonated with restoration audiences
  • Ariel accompanied by a female sprite
  • Miranda had a sister and Sycorax was Caliban’s sister
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1674 Thomas Shadwell production

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  • Operatic elements used for the storm
  • Storm in Act 2 to accommodate late comers
  • Machinery used for staging
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1838 William Charles Macready production

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  • Caliban was a monster
  • Ariel, played by Priscilla Horton, flies on a wire
  • Spectacular staging for storm and Masque
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1873 Daniel Wilson’s ‘Missing Link’

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  • Caliban is the missing link in Darwin’s evolutionary change
  • Frank Benson watched monkeys and apes in the zoo to acquire the role
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20th cen (first half)

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  • Caliban and Ariel are the antithesis of each other
  • Ariel is honest, loyal and female
  • Caliban is dark, subversive and male
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1904 Herbert Beerbohm Tree production

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  • Caliban is a hairy, ape-like man, fascinated by the magic of the Island
  • Darwinism and British Imperialism
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1930 Aime Cesaire ‘Une Tempesta’

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  • Portrays plight of African slaves on Martinique
  • Ariel is a Mulatto slave
  • Caliban is black
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1932 John Dover

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  • Relates to Shakespeare’s retirement
  • Prospero and Miranda symbolise Shakespeare and Judith
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1936 J. Middleton Murry

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  • Tempest is most symbolic of Shakespeare’s play
  • Conclusion of Shakespeare’s careerS
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20th cen (second half)

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  • Caliban is black (Canada Lee in 1945)
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1950 Octavia Mannoni

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  • Play offers an explanation to the psychological effects of colonialism
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1970 Johnathon Miller (Mermaid Theatre)

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  • Caliban and Ariel are both black
  • Caliban played by Norman Beaton
  • Ariel was educated and takes control at the end
  • Caliban is uneducated
  • Ariel picks up Prospero’s broken staff and points it at Caliban
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1978 Georgio Strehler ‘La Tempesta’

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  • Prospero is a stage manager
  • Metatheatre
  • Ariel’s wires are clipped as he is set free
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1979 Derek Jarman (film)

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  • Prospero enjoys his enslavement of Ariel
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1984 Noel Cobb (reading)

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  • Caliban and Ariel are parts of Prospero’s own nature
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1993 Sam Mendes

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  • Ariel and Caliban were more equal to Prosper, angering him
  • Prospero was director
  • Ariel walks onto stage with a lantern and it explodes, sailors explode out of the ship
  • Caliban is simple and primitive
  • Trinculo has a dummy and ventriloquist
  • Miranda is a tomboy
  • Ariel is aware of his slave status
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1997 Karin Beier

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  • Multilingual Europe
  • 12 actors speak 9 languages
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1989 Adrian Noble production

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  • Ariel and Caliban are conjured from Prospero’s subconscious
  • Ariel covered in white body paint
  • Caliban is covered in black slime
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2002 Michael Boyd RSC

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  • Geff Francis was first RSC black actor to play Caliban
  • Emphasised theme of colonialism
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2010 Julie Traymor film

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  • Helen Mirren plays Prospera
  • Right-wing feminist position
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2011 US

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  • Banned in Tuscon, Arizona due to themes of racism, colonialism and enslavement
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2013 Jeremy Herrin production

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  • Prospero on a platform during storm
  • Jacobean take
  • In Shakespeare’s globe
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2016 RSC production Gregory Doran

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  • SFX