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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