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    The Tempest
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    The Tempest

    By William Shakespeare

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    Magic and Intrigue-- Prospero, a wizard, is the rightful Duke of Milan, but his brother, in league with the King, had deposed him and set him adrift with his 3-year-old daughter Miranda 12 years earlier. Through his mystical arts Prospero divines that his brother is on a ship passing close by. Prospero raises a tempest and drives his brother's ship toward the island and puts in motion a plan to restore his daughter to her rightful place. Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateJun 10, 2015
    ISBN9781627556958
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest dramatist in the English language. Shakespeare is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon.”  

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      The Tempest - William Shakespeare

      THE TEMPEST

      by William Shakespeare

      Wilder Publications, Inc.

      Copyright © 2014

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1

      ISBN: 978-1-62755-695-8

      Table of Contents

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      ACT I

      ACT I. SCENE I. On a ship at sea; a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard

      ACT I. SCENE II. The Island. Before PROSPERO’S cell

      ACT II

      ACT II. SCENE I. Another part of the island

      ACT II. SCENE II. Another part of the island

      ACT III

      ACT III. SCENE II. Before PROSPERO’S cell

      ACT III. SCENE II. Another part of the island

      ACT III. SCENE III. Another part of the island

      ACT IV

      ACT V

      ACT V. SCENE I. Before PROSPERO’S cell

      EPILOGUE

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      ALONSO, King of Naples

      SEBASTIAN, his brother

      PROSPERO, the right Duke of Milan

      ANTONIO, his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan

      FERDINAND, son to the King of Naples

      GONZALO, an honest old counsellor

      Lords

      ADRIAN

      FRANCISCO

      CALIBAN, a savage and deformed slave

      TRINCULO, a jester

      STEPHANO, a drunken butler

      MASTER OF A SHIP

      BOATSWAIN

      MARINERS

      MIRANDA, daughter to Prospero

      ARIEL, an airy spirit

      Spirits

      IRIS

      CERES

      JUNO

      NYMPHS

      REAPERS

      Other Spirits attending on Prospero

      SCENE: A ship at sea; afterwards an uninhabited island

      ACT I

      ACT I. SCENE I. On a ship at sea; a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard

      Enter a SHIPMASTER and a BOATSWAIN

      MASTER: Boatswain!

      BOATSWAIN: Here, master; what cheer?

      MASTER: Good! Speak to th’ mariners; fall to’t yarely, or

      we run ourselves aground; bestir, bestir. Exit

      Enter MARINERS

      BOATSWAIN: 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 ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND

      GONZALO, and OTHERS

      ALONSO: Good boatswain, have care. Where’s the master?

      Play the men.

      BOATSWAIN: I pray now, keep below.

      ANTONIO: Where is the master, boson?

      BOATSWAIN: Do you not hear him? You mar our labour;

      keep your cabins; you do assist the storm.

      GONZALO: Nay, good, be patient.

      BOATSWAIN: When the sea is. Hence! What cares these

      roarers for the name of king? To cabin! silence! Trouble

      us not.

      GONZALO: Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.

      BOATSWAIN: None that I more love than myself. You are

      counsellor; if you can command these elements to

      silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not

      hand a rope more. Use your authority; if you cannot, give

      thanks you have liv’d so long, and make yourself ready

      in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so

      hap.—Cheerly, good hearts!—Out of our way, I say.

      Exit

      GONZALO: I have great comfort from this fellow. Methinks

      he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is

      perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his hanging;

      make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth

      little advantage. If he be not born to be hang’d, our

      case is miserable. Exeunt

      Re—enter BOATSWAIN

      BOATSWAIN: Down with the topmast. Yare, lower, lower!

      Bring her to try wi’ th’ maincourse. [A cry within]

      A plague upon this howling! They are louder than the weather or our office.

      Re—enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO

      Yet again! What do you here? Shall we give o’er, and

      drown? Have you a mind to sink?

      SEBASTIAN: A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,

      incharitable dog!

      BOATSWAIN: Work you, then.

      ANTONIO: Hang, cur; hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker;

      we are less afraid to be drown’d than thou art.

      GONZALO: I’ll warrant him for drowning, though the ship were

      no stronger than a nutshell, and as leaky as an unstanched

      wench.

      BOATSWAIN: Lay her a—hold, a—hold; set her two courses; off

      to sea again; lay her off.

      Enter MARINERS, Wet

      MARINERS: All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost!

      Exeunt

      BOATSWAIN: What, must our mouths be cold?

      GONZALO: The King and Prince at prayers!

      Let’s assist them,

      For our case is as theirs.

      SEBASTIAN: I am out of patience.

      ANTONIO: We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards.

      This wide—chopp’d rascal—would thou mightst lie drowning

      The washing of ten tides!

      GONZALO: He’ll be hang’d yet,

      Though every drop of water swear against it,

      And gape at wid’st to glut him.

      [A confused noise within: Mercy on us!

      We split, we split! Farewell, my wife and children!

      Farewell, brother! We split, we split, we split!]

      ANTONIO: Let’s all sink wi’ th’ King.

      SEBASTIAN: Let’s take leave of him.

      Exeunt ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN

      GONZALO: Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for

      an acre of barren ground—long heath, brown furze, any

      thing. The wills above be done, but I would fain die

      dry death. Exeunt

      ACT I. SCENE II. The Island. Before PROSPERO’S cell

      Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA

      MIRANDA: If by your art, my dearest father, you have

      Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.

      The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,

      But that the sea, mounting to th’ welkin’s cheek,

      Dashes the fire out. O, I have

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