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The Merchant of Venice (The RSC Shakespeare). Julius Caesar (The RSC Shakespeare). Twelfth Night (The RSC Shakespeare). This book presents a historical overview of The Tempest in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading Directors – Peter Brook, Sam Mendes and Rupert Goold – so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible - a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and.

Introduction and "Shakespeare's Career in the Theater": Jonathan Bate. Scene-by-Scene Analysis: Jan Sewell. In Performance: Karin Brown (RSC stagings) and Jan Sewell (overview). The Director's Cut (interviews by Jonathan Bate and Kevin Wright): Peter Brook, Sam Mendes, and Rupert Goold

Tend to the master's whistle. I come To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task Ariel and all his quality.

Tend to the master's whistle. Blow, till thou burst thy wind, if room enough! Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others. Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master? Play the men. Boatswain. Hast thou, spirit, Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee? ARIEL.

The tempest act I. scene 1. On a ship at sea; a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard. Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to th' master's whistle. Blow till thou burst thy wind, if room enough. Enter a SHIPMASTER and a BOATSWAIN.

Generally believed to be the last play written solely by Shakespeare, The Tempest centers on a banished noble who uses sorcery to confront his foes.

This book includes: An introduction to The Tempest by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate The play – with clear explanatory notes on each page A scene-by-scene analysis An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre An exploration of the notorious challenges to staging The Tempest The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate.

At the RSC. The Director's Cut: Interviews with Gregory Doran and Phyllida Lloyd. Playing Kate: An Interview with Michelle Gomez. Shakespeare's Career in the Theater Beginnings. The Ensemble at Work. My foot my tutor?" says Prospero in The Tempest when his daughter, Miranda, presumes to speak out of turn: if the man was the head, the girl-child was the foot, just as in Coriolanus a plebeian is nothing more than the "big toe" of the commonwealth.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a fresh .

An introduction to The Tempest by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate The play – with clear explanatory notes on each page A scene-by-scene analysis An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre An exploration of the notorious challenges to staging The Tempest.