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The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone.After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where Prospero, a wizard, lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel, an ...
Draft translations into Welsh by J. Alban Morris of Henry VIII, The Tempest, 'The Rape of Lucrece', 'A Lover's Complaint', 'The Passionate Pilgrim', 'The Phoenix and the Turtle' and the sonnets. Notes by J. Alban Morris for Welsh translations of The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth, The Tempest etc.
The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island is a comedy adapted by John Dryden and William D'Avenant from Shakespeare's comedy The Tempest. [1] The musical setting, previously attributed to Henry Purcell, and probably for the London revival of 1712, was very probably by John Weldon.
Looking for ideas for a new subject, Adès saw Jonathan Kent's staging of Shakespeare's The Tempest at the Almeida Theatre in London in 2000. [7] For a new libretto, Adès turned to the experienced dramatist Meredith Oakes, whose work had included a short opera libretto for Miss Treat (2002); since the early 1990s, several original plays, translations and adaptations of classics and modern ...
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Parts or all of it have been set to music by Henry Purcell (alternatively attributed to John Weldon, The Tempest), Igor Stravinsky (Three Songs from William Shakespeare), Arthur Sullivan (The Tempest), Ralph Vaughan Williams (Three Shakespeare Songs), Pete Seeger (Two from Shakespeare), John Zorn, Marianne Faithfull, Laurie Anderson, and Caroline Shaw.
Der Sturm (The Tempest) is a German-language opera in three acts and an epilogue by the Swiss composer Frank Martin to a libretto based on the Schlegel/Tieck German translation of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Martin's only opera was premiered at the Vienna State Opera on 17 June 1956. [1]
Sycorax / ˈ s ɪ k ər æ k s / is an unseen character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). She is a vicious and powerful witch and the mother of Caliban, one of the few native inhabitants of the island on which Prospero, the hero of the play, is stranded.