- Have your thesis/theories for your paper blogged by next Thursday
- Jon Orsis blog
- Redemption/Regeneration
- The Tempest
- There is no storm- it is all in the imagination
- WS shifts focus to mechanism to discover art
- Prospero
- oppressive; aggressive
- real time- operates in the now- no time shifts
- he is very obsessed with time and often asks about the time
- screen writer, director, actor, father, mage, schoolteacher, imperialist, etc...
- play many different parts with the confines of the play
- Caliban
- freedom fighter???
- Some Themes discussed
- the issue of colonization
- exploration
- slavery to imperialistic power
- Last play written by WS by himself
- Ancient mystery religious initiation: Eleusinian
- "mystery play" not miracle plays
- open to anyone
- transforms lives
- mustace=mystery
- parts of ritual
- saying things, doing things, seeing things: changes lives
- how we all live but we have this in chaos in our own lives
- ritual=domanon=drama
- held by cult of Demeter/Sere & Persephone
- more info about the ceremonies
- sacrament=sacred=marriages
- Miranda= wonder
- "bimbo" (Sexson's word!)
- innocence
- Time???
- Prospero controls entire play as if putting on his own play within the play
- uses the word "now" 79x
- Alegory
- Prospero
- all characters have baggage
- Elements
- Ariel: Fire/Air
- Caliban: Water/Earth
- Mage
- magician figure
- Prospero
- alchemist
- memory/memory theater
- Elevated Speech about time
- PROSPERO
Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it
That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
If thou remember'st aught ere thou camest here,
How thou camest here thou mayst - Sorcerer (Cave art)
- Prospero
- 1/2 animal 1/2 human
- thought to be musician, posture, or shaman in animal skin
- brings up idea of nature vs nurture
- aggressive= power
- "Shakespeare's Mystery Play: A study of the Tempest" Colin Still
- referenced in Frye's book
- discusses religious initiation, redemption, forgiveness
- themes found in the Tempest
- Demeter/Persephone & mother/daughter
- Memory Magas: remember mythological self
- 5 attends turn into 9 muses when taken into the mythological memory
- Tempest
- recaptures history from paleolithic to present
- not sure if he succeeds but closest attempt ever if he doesn't
- recaptures last 14 plays
- Shakespeare's Caliban
- Vaughan & Vaughan
- f
- Caliban
- cannibal
- Montana's essays (what came up when googled this)
- historical level-New World
- Sycorax
- female magic
- male steals female?
- caliban's mom
- sow-female counterpart to boar
- Sow Goddess
- Celtic mythology
- attack of the boar doesn't actually happen
- T.S. Elliot Wasteland
- references a lot
- especially Ariel's song
- Come unto these yellow sands,Full fathom five thy father lies;
And then take hands:
Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd
The wild waves whist,
Foot it featly here and there;
And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.
Hark, hark!
Bow-wow.
The watch-dogs bark.
Bow-wow.
Hark, hark! I hear
The strain of strutting chanticleer
Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow.
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them—Ding-dong, bell - Wood
- both Ferdinand and Caliban had to carry
- wood=woo-ed
- both tried to woo her in their own way
- interesting twist on how WS uses this theme that appeared in MSND
- Prospero=Bottom
- wants to play all
- symbolizes WS by having to play all/direct all
- inventing puppets and playing the parts as well
- Anead Virgil
- Queen Dido
- back story needed to understand references made
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido_(Queen_of_Carthage)
- Alcohol
- alludes to how alcohol (fire whiskey) was given to natives when imperialistic powers to over areas
- exhibited by the fools getting Caliban drunk
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