BECALMED… #StormTossed

Apologies to regular readers: the combination of ill-health and the UCU industrial action means that I haven’t been posting. There may be the odd post over the next few weeks, but it’s more likely that #SlowShakespeare #Tempest #StormTossed will return, at full strength, in 2020…

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Ariel, invisible – and, come unto these yellow sands… with added Cymbeline! (1.2.376-387) #StormTossed

Enter FERDINAND, and ARIEL, invisible, playing and singing.   ARIEL [Sings.]                        Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands; Curtsied when you have, and kissed The wild waves whist; Foot it featly here and there, And sweet sprites bear The burden. (burden dispersedly) SPIRITS                      Hark, hark! Bow-wow, The watch dogs bark, bow-wow. ARIEL                         Hark hark, […]

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I know how to curse (and Prospero is a bully) (1.2.364-375) #StormTossed

CALIBAN        You taught me language, and my profit on’t Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language. PROSPERO                                                     Hag-seed, hence: Fetch us in fuel, and be quick – thou’rt best – To answer other business. Shrug’st thou, malice? If thou neglect’st, or dost unwillingly What I command, […]

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Caliban, a tortoise, and Ariel, like a water nymph (1.2.314-319) #StormTossed

PROSPERO                             What ho, slave! Caliban, Thou earth, thou: speak! CALIBAN        [within]                       There’s wood enough within. PROSPERO     Come forth I say, there’s other business for thee. Come, thou tortoise, when? Enter ARIEL, like a water nymph.                         Fine apparition, my quaint Ariel, Hark in thine ear. ARIEL                                     My lord, it shall be done.                  Exit. PROSPERO     Thou poisonous […]

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Wake up Miranda! (Shake it off!) and, off to see Caliban (1.2.306-314) #StormTossed

PROSPERO     [to Miranda] Awake, dear heart, awake; thou has slept well. Awake. MIRANDA                  The strangeness of your story put Heaviness in me. PROSPERO                             Shake it off. Come on, We’ll visit Caliban, my slave, who never Yields us kind answer. MIRANDA                                          ’Tis a villain, sir, I do not love to look on. PROSPERO                                         But as ’tis, […]

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Prospero simmers down, and Ariel – a sea-nymph, then invisible (1.2.294-305) #StormTossed

PROSPERO     If thou more murmur’st, I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entails till Thou hast howled away twelve winters. ARIEL                                                                         Pardon, master, I will be correspondent to command And do my spriting gently. PROSPERO     Do so, and after two days I will discharge thee. ARIEL                                                 That’s my noble master. What […]

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