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Issue Details: First known date: 1610-1612... 1610-1612 The Tempest
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The Tempest is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to the island. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio's lowly nature, the redemption of the King, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso's son, Ferdinand.

Adaptations

y separately published work icon Beach Blanket Tempest Dennis Watkins , Chris Harriott (composer), 1984 (Manuscript version)x400603 Z853373 1984 single work musical theatre In 'Beach Blanket Tempest', however, the central character is Vince Prospero, the duke of rock 'n' roll in Elvis-like proportions. He too is marooned on an island with his daughter, but their spirit is from a bottle and not a tree and her name is Gidget. She wants to be free and to ride the wild surf. Bleach Blanket is filled with catchy ballads, love duets, '60s rock 'n' roll and even a visit from the Supreme Beings as the spirits of earth, wind and fire. (Scott Howlett, 'Tempest Gets Funky', Hills Shire Times (12 February 2002): 40).
The Tempest Meredith Oakes , Thomas Adès (composer), 2004 single work musical theatre opera

'The Tempest is an opera by English composer Thomas Adès with a libretto in English by Meredith Oakes based on the play The Tempest by William Shakespeare.'
y separately published work icon Tempest in a Teacup Ged Maybury , 2015 10490020 2015 single work drama fantasy

A ten-minute 'steampunked' version of The Tempest.

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First known date: ca. 1610-1612
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Works about this Work

Intention i "And on the rocky shore the news is not all good", Angela Gardner , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Thing & Unthing 2014; (p. 26) Writing to the Wire 2016; (p. 108)
“A Sort of Buzzing” : Queer Sound in David Malouf’s Blood Relations James Marland , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Colloquy : Text Theory Critique , December no. 28 2014; 'David Malouf’s only stage play, Blood Relations, is an Australian re-telling of Shakespeare’s comedy, The Tempest. Following its premiere at the Sydney Theatre Company in 1987, the play received a mixed critical reception and has generated relatively little scholarly interest since. While much of the critical discourse concerned with Malouf’s work centres on his novels and poetry, Blood Relations is important for providing a dramatic lens on issues that are recognisable in much of his work, such as his exploration of postcolonial Australia. In fact, Blood Relations operates as a postcolonial palimpsest that problematises the relationship between the European settlers (represented through the Greek-born character Willy) and Australia’s Indigenous population (represented through the Aboriginal character Kit).' (Author's introduction)
Hamlet Hits the Road to Help Celebrate a Birthday John Shand , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 September 2014; (p. 2)
Untitled i "the players rehearse", Lorin Ford , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 29.1 2009;
Prospero i "This man has magical powers; the slender", Kim Cheng Boey , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: After the Fire : New and Selected Poems 2006; (p. 191)
Happily Ever After: William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Murray Bail's Eucalyptus Rebecca McNeer , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 16 no. 2 2002; (p. 171-176)

McNeer compares elements of similarity in Murray Bail's Eucalyptus and William Shakespeare's The Tempest. McNeer particularly examines fables, fairy tales and mythic stories that may have been available to Shakespeare and, derivatively, influenced Bail. The characters of Miranda in The Tempest and Ellen in Eucalyptus are compared as are their respective fathers, Prospero and Holland.

McNeer concludes with a quotation from G. Wilson Knight's The Crown of Life: Essays in Interpretation of Shakespeare's Final Plays (1965): 'It is, perhaps, inevitable that Shakespeare, so saturated with the spirit of his land, should, in such a summation of that work in The Tempest, have outlined, among much else, a myth of the national soul' (p.255). This parting comment, says McNeer, 'may provide the most profound connection of all between William Shakespeare and Murray Bail'.
Tangibles William J. Lines , 2003 single work essay
— Appears in: A Place on Earth : An Anthology of Nature Writing from Australia and North America 2003; (p. 147-157)
Untitled i "the players rehearse", Lorin Ford , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 29.1 2009;
Transformations of Caliban and Ariel : Imagination and Language in David Malouf, Margaret Atwood and Seamus Heaney Roslyn Jolly , 1986 single work criticism
— Appears in: World Literature Written in English , Autumn vol. 26 no. 2 1986; (p. 295-330)
Prospero i "This man has magical powers; the slender", Kim Cheng Boey , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: After the Fire : New and Selected Poems 2006; (p. 191)
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