The Tempest
Notes
As should probably be no surprise, just in Act 1 there are tons of interesting bits - invented phrases that are now common, or 'good lines' that I didn't know the reference. Also I'm pretty interested in the plot by now. What's going to happen???
Noted on June 14, 2023
The Tempest is one of those Shakespeare plays I've not only never read, but I don't even know the plot of. There's a wizard on an island? who is or is not Caliban? No idea. But my recent favorite composer Caroline Shaw set part of this for a recent favorite chamber choir Roomful of Teeth, and there is a really pretty setting of 'Ariel's Song', and I wanted to look up the text.
Noted on June 14, 2023
Quotes
Begun to tell me what I am, but stopp'd
And left me to a bootless inquisition,Quoted on June 14, 2023
A mark so bloody on the business, but
With colours fairer painted their foul ends.Quoted on June 14, 2023
Then all afire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand,
With hair up-staring,--then like reeds, not hair,--
Was the first man that leap'd; cried, 'Hell is empty
And all the devils are here.'Quoted on June 14, 2023
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.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell
Burthen Ding-dong
Hark! now I hear them,--Ding-dong, bell.Quoted on June 14, 2023
They are both in either's powers; but this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.Quoted on June 14, 2023