daws_online 's review for:

The Tempest by William Shakespeare
2.0

Uh oh. I found a lot of beautiful moments of verse, but I just wanted there to be more stakes or for it to explore its own themes more deeply. There isn't anything wrong with it being largely lighthearted, but it ended up being not for me. I'll probably have to try out more tragedies. I liked the moment in the epilogue and was attached to Ariel (does he never actually get explicitly freed?), but Elizabethan language continues to be a roadblock.