The Tempest- Shakespeare Flashcards
What does prospero call miranda which is an extended metaphor or religious symbol?
Cherubin
When was the tempest first preformed?
1611, 2 years after England colonised Virginia in 1609
Erin Yorke critic say about miranda?
Although innocent and niave, miranda is no pawn in the hands of men… She still exerts her power
What does Phillip Brooke say caliban represents?
Caliban represents native Americans being negative to give support for colonisers
Structurally what happens to miranda?
Her lines and radical ideas get reduced as the play progresses and her relationship with Ferdinand does
What is a masque typical of
17th century theatre
Prosperous lines to show masque shaped by his intent on abstenance
Do not give dalliance, to much to the vein be more abstenious
Caliban call impregnating miranda
Thou didn’t prevent me, I had peopled this isle with calibans
What is prospero likened to having with is a subversion of god
Having ‘god like power’
What kind of slave does miranda call caliban
Abhorred
Who was being colonised at the time Shakespeare wrote this
America
How did miranda propose
I am your wife, if you’ll have me. Parrelell unconventional character
Although queen Elizabeth was on the throne what was society still like
Patrichial
David daniell said
First performance of the play was spectacular and masque like
Caliban claim the island is…
Mine by sycorax my mother
Caliban is called abhorred slave what is Ariel?
Servant
Whose travel diaries did people believe inspired Shakespeare
William strachey’s shipwreck of Bermuda
Hazlitt said?
Miranda is portrayed as a ‘goddess of the isle’
David g.nuzmam said?
The play is support of the Bermuda colonised project
Audience were
Highly religious
Miranda offers to…
Bear his logs
Ceres is a symbol of…
Agriculture and prosperity,