The Tempest: Difference between revisions

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** Some critics view Prospero's farewell to magic as Shakespeare's farewell to theater and writing. This does ignore the official timeline that Shakespeare wrote more plays after this.

* [[The Atoner]]: Prospero has moments of this later in the play, and renounces sorcery at the end.

* [[Beam Me Up Scotty]]: The line is ''not'' "[[The Maltese Falcon|the stuff dreams are made of]]", but rather, this:

* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: The line is ''not'' "[[The Maltese Falcon|the stuff dreams are made of]]", but rather, this:

{{quote| ''...We are such stuff<br />

As dreams are made on, and our little life<br />

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* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: Prospero references this in his fourth-wall breaking speech at the end.

* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: Caliban, after [[Those Two Guys]] meet him.

* [[~~Daddys~~ Girl]]: Miranda

* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Miranda

* [[Evil Prince]]: Antonio.

* [[Evil Plan|Good Plan]]: A rare heroic version; the entire play is Prospero's [[God Game]] to end his exile from Milan. 'Good' because all he wants is to get his home back and teach his evil brother a lesson. No one gets hurt, not even the evil brother, and almost all of them go back to Milan as more or less friends.

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* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Shakespearean costuming was usually done with rich, well kept contemporary clothes regardless of the setting. This is why Prospero mentions how he was given rich linens before being exiled from Milan, and why the shipwrecked noblemen comment on how their clothes are bone dry despite having been sent through a storm.

* [[Love At First Sight]]: Ferdinand and Miranda.

* [[Mad ~~Scientists~~ Beautiful Daughter]]: Miranda

* [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]]: Miranda

* [[Magic Wand]]: Prospero can disarm thee with this stick, and make thy weapon drop.

* [[~~Mamas~~ Baby ~~Papas~~ Maybe]]: Brushed on -- Prospero tells Miranda that her virtuous mother had told him she was his daughter.

* [[Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe]]: Brushed on -- Prospero tells Miranda that her virtuous mother had told him she was his daughter.

* [[The Matchmaker]]: Prospero

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Prospero's name comes from the Latin word for "good fortune", which may or may not be ironic, depending on your point of view (he's unlucky to have been deposed, but lucky to be alive). Miranda's name means "to marvel", which is something she both does herself and inspires in others. Trinculo's name derives from a word for excessive drinking. Fernando means "brave journey". It's been suggested that "Caliban" is an almost anagram of "cannibal".

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** Or, Sycorax is meant to be a blue-eyed Algerian. Or both.

* [[Visible Invisibility]]: Ariel and the other fairies are invisible to all characters save Prospero, but visible to the audience.

* [[What the Hell Hero]]: Reversed; the moment Prospero decides to back out of his revenge plan - a near-miss [[My God What Have I Done]].

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Reversed; the moment Prospero decides to back out of his revenge plan - a near-miss [[My God, What Have I Done?]].