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  2. The Tempest - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Shakespeare's late romances - Wikipedia

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    The Tempest, ca. 1603–11; The Two Noble Kinsmen, ca. 1612–14 (co-written with John Fletcher) Sources: F E Halliday (1964), A L Rowse (1978) and Stanley Wells (1986) [2] [n 1] The Norton Shakespeare describes Henry VIII (ca. 1612–13) as being characteristic of the late romances, but still considers it one of the histories, [4] as does ...

  4. List of works by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare is thought to have written Act I, scenes i and ii; II, ii and iv; III, ii, lines 1–203 (to exit of King); V, i. King John: 1595–1598 [42] First known performance at Covent Garden Theatre on 26 February 1737 but doubtlessly performed as early as the 1590s. Richard II: Richard III: Around 1593. [43] First published in a quarto in ...

  5. Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth was a favourite of the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys, who saw the play on 5 November 1664 ("admirably acted"), 28 December 1666 ("most excellently acted"), ten days later on 7 January 1667 ("though I saw it lately, yet [it] appears a most excellent play in all respects"), on 19 April 1667 ("one of the best plays for a stage ...

  6. What's past is prologue - Wikipedia

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    The phrase was originally used in The Tempest, Act 2, Scene I. Antonio uses it to suggest that all that has happened before that time, the "past," has led Sebastian and himself to this opportunity to do what they are about to do: commit murder. In the context of the preceding and next lines, "(And by that destiny) to perform an act, Whereof ...

  7. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    [143] [144] [145] In Macbeth, the shortest and most compressed of Shakespeare's tragedies, [146] uncontrollable ambition incites Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, to murder the rightful king and usurp the throne until their own guilt destroys them in turn. [147] In this play, Shakespeare adds a supernatural element to the tragic structure.

  8. Wikipedia:WikiProject Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    That should have a {main article} tag and a brief prose summary on the play's article, and a {main article} tag and a brief list summary at Shakespeare on screen. Where there are only a handful of versions, these should be covered in a prose section on the page, and in list form at Shakespeare on screen .

  9. Caliban - Wikipedia

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    Caliban (/ ˈ k æ l ɪ b æ n / KAL-i-ban), the subhuman son of the sea witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.. His character is one of the few Shakespearean figures to take on a life of its own "outside" Shakespeare's own work: [1] as Russell Hoban put it, "Caliban is one of the hungry ideas, he's always looking for someone to word him into being ...