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The Shakescleare version of The Tempest includes a modern English translation, which will allow you to easily access Shakespeare’s complex language and decipher the play’s most important quotes, such as “We are such stuff / As dreams are made on” and “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
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LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Tempest, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Everyone exits except for Prospero, who speaks an epilogue to the audience. He begins, "Now my charms are all o'erthrown, and what strength I have's mine own—which is most faint" (epilogue.1-3).
From the opening scene of The Tempest during the storm, when the ruling courtiers on the ship must take orders from their subjects, the sailors and the boatswain, The Tempest examines a variety of questions about power: Who has it and when? Who's entitled to it?
Analysis. A terrible storm tosses a ship at sea. The ship carries Alonso, the King of Naples, and assorted courtiers on the journey home from Alonso's daughter's wedding in Tunisia.
Actually understand The Tempest Act 1, Scene 2. Read every line of Shakespeare’s original text alongside a modern English translation.
Actually understand The Tempest Act 1, Scene 1. Read every line of Shakespeare’s original text alongside a modern English translation.
