stephano and trinculo

Question 1

stephano

Answer 1

Stephano is a comical character who spends the whole play drunk

Question 2

king

Answer 2

When Caliban mistakes him for a god because he gives Caliban wine and gets him drunk, Stephano begins to fancy himself a king.

Trinculo comments, in a series of asides, on the absurdity of the scene: “A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a poor drunkard”

“Lord of the Island,”

Question 3

beat thee

Answer 3

” I am sorry I beat thee. But while thou liv’st, keep a good tongue in thy head.”

Question 4

selling slave

Answer 4

Stephano notices a brown mass with a pair of legs sticking out on each end. He thinks it must be a two-headed, four-legged monster of some sort. He, too, considers capturing and selling this creature as a curiosity back home

Question 5

monster

Answer 5

Stephano enjoys the admiration of the “monster” and relishes the drunken Caliban’s offer to kiss his feet.

Question 6

Caliban

Answer 6

He entices Stephano by promising Miranda as a prize once they’ve murdered Prospero

“Do that good mischief which may make this island thine own for ever, and I…for aye thy foot-licker”

Question 7

music

Answer 7

Stephano wants “music for nothing”, which highlights the difference between him and Caliban, as Caliban can appreciate the “sweet airs” more than a ‘civilised’ human can

Question 8

stephano exemplifies

Answer 8

“the male desire to possess female beauty, using it as a way of expressing status” - Mike Brett

Question 9

changing views of S and T

Answer 9

Caliban is also shown as one of the most natural characters, being very much in touch with the natural world; and modern audiences have come to view him as far nobler than his two friends, S and T, although the original intent of Shakespeare may have been different

Question 10

“brave monster” scene

Answer 10

shows the foreign, civilized culture as decadent and manipulative: Stephano immediately plans to “inherit” the island, using Caliban to show him all its virtues. Stephano and Trinculo are a grotesque, parodic version of Prospero upon his arrival twelve years ago.

Question 11

doubling

Answer 11

Caliban/Stephano/Trinculo double and parody what Prospero does throughout the play.

Stephano muses about the kind of island it would be if he ruled it, just as Gonzalo had done

Question 12

S+T vs A+S

Answer 12

Stephano and Trinculo thus become rough parodies of the power-hungry courtiers Antonio and Sebastian.

Question 13

In Herrin’s 2013 production

Answer 13

both Trinculo and Antonio, low-born and high-born, sport exaggerated, erect codpieces - both pleasure driven

Question 14

Fran Hill

Answer 14

they are pleasure driven