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What happens during The Tempest's inciting event? We're glad you asked. No, really. Otherwise, we read the whole play for nothing.
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What happens during The Tempest's inciting event? We're glad you asked. No, really. Otherwise, we read the whole play for nothing.
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in Shakespeare's plays the tempest inciting
- 00:09
event last month Which characters are already on the island
- 00:16
Yeah so cross borough the main character has been on
- 00:19
the island for a while Prospero was duke of milan
- 00:23
and he's been ousted along with his daughter miranda They've
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- 00:27
been on this island for twelve years so miranda's entire
- 00:30
life over the course of the play miranda meets a
- 00:32
few men and it's really important that these air like
- 00:35
the first people she's ever met what happens during the
- 00:39
place inciting event The inciting event for the play is
- 00:43
that there's a huge shipwreck king alonso is on his
- 00:48
way back to naples from having married off his daughter
- 00:52
he's on a ship full of his attendants his brother
- 00:56
his son and prospero knowing that they're coming sets off
- 01:00
huge storm there's a ship rack And then these men
- 01:04
in various groups are stranded on the island So they're
- 01:09
all stranded And really importantly all of these men think
- 01:12
that the others have died So take alonso is completely
- 01:15
convinced that his son has died and he's now without
- 01:18
an heir Which characters are already on the island What 00:01:26.759 --> [endTime] happens during the play's inciting event
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