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Shakespeare's The Tempest 1 History
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Is The Tempest Shakespeare's final play? How does it differ from his other plays? What kind of literature does The Tempest most resemble? Why are w...

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Shakespeare's The Tempest 2 Prospero's Powers
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Does Prospero have magical powers? And if he does, could he get us into Hogwarts? We've been waiting so patiently...

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Shakespeare's The Tempest 3 Inciting Event
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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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Shakespeare's The Tempest 7 The Love Story 63 Views


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Shakespeare's plays the tempest The

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love story a'la Shmoop.. what happens Right after the ship

00:16

There's been a shit rag gone to the island as

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he said fernand has been isolated from the others So [Ferdinand crying]

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the first kind of point of order is to get

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all of these all of the older dudes right So

00:27

alonso and antonio and sebastian to go and find prince [Alonso Antonio and Sebastien appear]

00:32

ferdinand or at least to look for him make sure

00:33

he's actually dead What's going on with ferdinand and miranda

00:40

So ferdinand has already met miranda miraculously Yeah and because

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she's beautiful and charming sparks are flying it's pretty great [Miranda appears and sparks fly]

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Prospero is happy marine to his happy president is happy

00:57

everyone's happy it's Perfect but yeah it's too early in

01:00

the play for everything to be perfect Right Which is

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where prospero has to insert the wedge right He also

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believes in like the value of hard work so he [Prospero teaching value of hard work]

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doesn't want anyone to be too happy to quickly So

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he kind of steps in to make sure that that

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ferdinand has to work for miranda so that he can [Ferdinand mowing lawn]

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actually appreciate her So yeah that's basically what's happening here

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Ferdinand has teo do the work but luckily for him

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in another sign of his kind of unfailing devotion he's

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so head over heels in love with veronica that the [Ferdinand spins upside down]

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work basically isn't work He's delighted to do it also

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is a little awkward since he thinks his dad is

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dead But you know love is love is on the [Ship sinks]

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brain Yeah exactly So he's trying to grieve but it's

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a little bit forced which well i was going to

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say you can imagine it I can't really imagine that

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if my dad died i would be pretty sad But

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these are kids i mean, Miranda's fifteen years old on

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dh So part of what they're playing out here is

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like what is it like if you've been separated from [Miranda picked up from big hand]

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humanity your whole life and finally you collide with it

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how would you behave And it turns out you're behaving

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some pretty weird ways What happens Right after the shipwreck? What's going on with Ferdinand and Miranda?

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