A few other people have posted about comparing or contrasting the play’s text against the live performance, and many people I’ve heard talking about the two have been saying things such as “Caliban was too vengeful” or “the plot was too focused on Prospero.” While they have valid points, one thing they may not necessarily…

While at the Synetic Theater performance of The Tempest, there were many things I found different between what I remember reading and what we saw. One thing I adore about live theater is the fact that the director has so much creative freedom. Shakespeare uses very little stage cues in his plays which I find to be…

The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s later works in his career. Therefore, since this work was probably created  at the peak of Shakespeare’s career or afterwards, our friend Shakespeare had to switch up his style. This explains why The Tempest is a harder piece to comprehend, language-wise. Compared to Henry V and Titus, the plot…

Prospero is first presented in act I scene ii of The Tempest wearing his magical cloak.  Prospero and Miranda witness the ship wreck, he starts to explain to Miranda where she comes from as well as his background. While conversing with Miranda, she starts feeling sleepy and actually ends up falling asleep. Ariel, the spirit is…

Miranda’s new found love interest in Ferdinand shows how “love at first sight” hasn’t been the first time Shakespeare has used this theme, especially on a young, naive, and not even 16 year old teenager. The setting in far away and “exotic” scenery moves the audience from dreary England to a place where love seems…