The Tempest
Shakespeare's romance The Tempest along with many other works of that time help represent the arts and drama which were large parts of the Elizabethan Renaissance. Queen Elizabeth I made many of changes and influenced all England and also much of the world during her reign. She was Queen of England for forty-five years, 1558-1603 and her reign signifies tremendous political power and unparalleled achievement, so it is only appropriate that the second half of the sixteenth century was named after her. She is often considered the greatest monarch to sit on the English throne and it just so happens that her reign coincided with the English Renaissance (rebirth of the arts). She was extremely well educated and had many intellectual interests out side of the castle, because of this and her support, some of the best literature and drama was written while she was in power. She herself wrote both poetry and music and was a big supporter of the local playhouses such as The Globe. Commerce, industry, and the arts flourished while she was in power and because of her great support. She enjoyed the plays and sonnets of such great writers as William Shakespeare whose plays are virtually icons of the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare was very
She begins to sincerely cry about people she does not even know. In a sense this is very true and when this play was performed in the Elizabethan era everyone in the audience would pick up on this allusion and many other allusions like this. The labyrinth was a large and extremely intricate maze that contained a Minotaur. The shipwreck is what the play opened up with so the reader would know that is where the story began. He wrote one hundred-fifty-four sonnets and thirty-six plays, these included comedies, histories, tragedies, and his later comedies which are called romances and one of these works was The Tempest. This is when Alonso is just starting to figure out that weird occurrences are going on on the island. Alonso stated in the fifth act of the play, the last act, " How thou hast met us here, whom three hours since/ Were wracked upon this shore. She begs her father to stop the horrible storm if there is any way he can and she also tells him if she could she would do anything in her power to keep the people on that ship from suffering. Miranda says, "O, I have suffered/ With those that I saw suffer! A brave vessel. O, the cry did knock /Against my very heart!" (1,2. No one would ever be accused of being crazy for believing in ghosts or magic in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, it was excepted in society because everything needed to be explained in one way or another (MacDonald 175). Prospero is only human and through this action shows he is very kind, because if another person were placed in his situation he/she would take every chance that was given to he/she to take revenge on their "deceivers" and they would probably be very cruel.
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