Prospero Flashcards
If by your art
you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them
Knowing I loved books, he furnished me
from mine own library with volumes that I prized above mine own dukedom
This swift business
I must uneasy make
thou shalt be as free
as mountain winds, but then exactly do all the points of my commands
I’ll to my books, for yet ere suppertime
must I perform much business
possess his books
for without them he is but a sot, as I
And that most deeply to consider
is the beauty of his daughter
I have given you here
one third of mine own life
All thy vexations were but my trials
of thy love, and thou strangely stood the test
I must bestow upon the eyes
of this couple some vanity of mine art
hush and be mute
or else our spell is marred
These our actors, as I foretold you,
were all spirits and are melted into air
The great globe its self
yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
we are such
stuff as dreams are made of, and our little lives are rounded with a sleep
A devil, a born devil,
on who’s nature nurture never sticks; on whom my pains humanly taken
mine would sir, were I human //////
And mine shall
This rough magic
I here abjure
I’ll break my staff, bury it
certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound I’ll drown my book
I do forgive thy rankest fault- all of them; and require
my dukedom of thee, which perforce I know thou must restore
Most cruelly didst thou,
Alonso, use me and my daugher
Bravely
my diligence. Thou shall be free
This thing of
darkness I acknowledge mine
release me from my bands/
with the help of thy good hands
Gentle breath of yours my sials/
must fill or else my project fails
As you from crimes would pardoned be
let your indulgence set me free
CRITIC
Charles Spencer
Omnipotent pupet master
CRITIC
Harold Bloom “Prospero’s
authority is unlike anyone else’s in Shakespeare”
CRITIC
Harold Bloom “breaking his
staff and drowning his boo certainly constitute diminishments to the self.
