- Title
- Epic into Romance: The Tempest 4.1 and Virgil's Aeneid
- Creator
- Wright, Laurence
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 1996
- Date
- 1996
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455641
- Identifier
- vital:75445
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_95
- Description
- At the conclusion of the betrothal masque for Ferdinand and Miranda, during the dance of the nymphs and reapers, Prospero calls out to the performing spirits," Well done, A void. No more." He has forgotten, as he tells us," that foul conspiracyl Of the beast Caliban and his confed-erates! Against my life"(4.1. 139-41). The entire spectacle vanishes into nothingness. Miranda and Ferdinand are taken aback. Miranda says she's never seen her father in such a state before. Prospero pretends that Ferdinand is alarmed, not by Prospero's own state of emotional disarray, but by the collapse of the masque. And he turns to Ferdinand and launches into what must be one of the three or four best-known speeches in Shakespeare: Be cheerful, sir; Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insub-stantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.(4.1. 148-158).
- Format
- 17 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Shakespeare in Southern Africa
- Relation
- Wright, L., 1996. Epic into Romance: The Tempest 4.1 and Virgil's Aeneid. Shakespeare in Southern Africa, 9(1), pp.49-65
- Relation
- Shakespeare in Southern Africa volume 9 number 1 49 65 1996 2071-7504
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- Rights
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