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exlibrisathena 's review for:
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
I adore A Midsummer Night's Dream. Much Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night I quite like as well. Since reading those three, however, I've had no luck. Romeo and Juliet is good in prose, but the plot itself has never appealed to me, other than its use as a metaphor, or a synonym for tragedy in colloquial speech. Othello bored me, as did Julius Caesar, and now The Tempest.
To summarise, The Tempest is messy, and in being so, dull as well. Not a fan of the brushing over of attempted rape, or casually racist language either, but then I suppose that was Shakespeare's time.
Interestingly, though, one of my favourite Shakespeare speeches comes from The Tempest. Maybe, though, that's because I've seen it performed, and done so beautifully:
"Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again."
To summarise, The Tempest is messy, and in being so, dull as well. Not a fan of the brushing over of attempted rape, or casually racist language either, but then I suppose that was Shakespeare's time.
Interestingly, though, one of my favourite Shakespeare speeches comes from The Tempest. Maybe, though, that's because I've seen it performed, and done so beautifully:
"Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again."