Set me free… (Epilogue, 13-20) #StormTossed

PROSPERO                                         Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant; And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardoned be, Let your indulgence set me free.                 Exit. (Epilogue, 13-20) It’s still an epilogue, and conventional […]

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Ariel, chick … to the elements, be free (5.1.312-319) #StormTossed

ALONSO                                             I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely. PROSPERO                                         I’ll deliver all, And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales And sail so expeditious that shall catch Your royal fleet far off. [aside to Ariel] My Ariel, chick, That is your charge. Then to the elements Be free, […]

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Alonso: bothered, and bewildered; Prospero: tell you later (5.1.245-253) #StormTossed

ALONSO         This is as strange a maze as e’er men trod, And there is in this business more than nature Was ever conduct of. Some oracle Must rectify our knowledge. PROSPERO                                                     Sir, my liege, Do not infest your mind with beating on The strangeness of this business. At picked leisure, Which shall be shortly, single […]

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