#the tempest by william shakespeare

[artemlegere]

Ariel and Caliban

Artist: David Scott (Scottish, 1806-1849)

Date: 1837

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

Ariel (The Tempest)

Ariel is a spirit who appears in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Ariel is bound to serve the magician Prospero, who rescued him from the tree in which he was imprisoned by Sycorax, the witch who previously inhabited the island. Prospero greets disobedience with a reminder that he saved Ariel from Sycorax's spells, and with promises to grant Ariel his freedom. Ariel is Prospero's eyes and ears throughout the play, using his magical abilities to cause the tempest in Act One which gives the play its name, and to foil other characters' plots to bring down their master.

Caliban (The Tempest)

Caliban, the subhuman son of the sea witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

Caliban is half human, half monster. After his island becomes occupied by Prospero and his daughter Miranda, Caliban is forced into slavery. While he is referred to as a calvaluna or mooncalf, a freckled monster, he is the only human inhabitant of the island that is otherwise "not honour'd with a human shape".

[wouldyoulikeafourleafclover]

Book count for 2025 as of 15/02: 6

-Everyone this Christmas has a secret by Benjamin Stevenson (10/10) -Navigating the stars by Maria V. Snyder (re-read) (10/10) -The Accident by Katie McMahon (4/10) -The tempest by Shakespeare (For school) (10/10) -Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton (for school) (2/10) -The Examiner by Janice Hallett (10/10)

Currently Reading: Easily over 10 books (sob)

[britneyshakespeare]

I'm curious about people's levels of familiarity; I intend no judgment or elitism and it's absolutely fine not to be a completionist, btw. I didn't think I would've intended to have read them all at age 25; it just sort of happened that after I passed the halfway point in the middle of 2023, I came out of a reading slump and was motivated to finish. Fwiw I consider myself a hobbyist (I am not involved in academia or professional theater) but I realize that that label is usually attributed to people with less experience.

I also have always loved seeing other bloggers' Shakespeare polls where they put certain plays or characters up against each other, but I'm often left wondering if it's really a 'fair' fight all the time if you're putting up something like Hamlet or Twelfth Night against one of the more obscure works, like the Winter's Tale. It's not a grave affront to vote in those polls if you don't know every play, but I am curious about it.

Please reblog for exposure if you vote; I would appreciate it a lot. Also feel free to elaborate on your own Shakespeare journey in tags, comments, reblogs, because I love to hear about other people's personal relationships to literature.

[mrs-starkgaryen]

Favourite Shakespeare's Comedies

After my other poll, I am going to be specific. There shall be a battle of the favourites!!

For-

Two Gentleman of Verona (comment 🐕)

Winter's Tale (comment ⌛️)

For the love of Shakespeare, please reblog for a better analysis

[sunaddicted]

My toxic trait is that I judge people by their top three Shakespeare plays - just like folks who are into the horoscope judge you based on your sun, moon and rising signs.

Btw mine are Macbeth, Richard II and The Tempest

[writing-for-life]

The Truth of Mankind…

…Is Also Dream’s

These quotes are from episode 5 (24/7):

“Garry dreams of proving his father he was wrong about him.”

“Kate dreams of running away where no one will find her.”

[But you do, and we see your star in so many panels of The Wake 🥺]

“Bette dreams of creating something that matters to people.”

You are the magician who became the man, Morpheus. And you are the king who left his kingdom, but not without making sure everyone else would be okay first--perhaps that is a different definition of a graceful ending, but it is graceful nonetheless.

You’re so painfully human, and yet, you are also not 😭

[thewrittenpodcast]

Hell (ao3) is empty (down) and all the devils (fanfic readers and writers) are here (tumblr)

[bodhrancomedy]

Ariel’s “Hell is empty and all the devils are here” speech from the Tempest, but in modern English and as if Ariel is the child-equivalent of a spirit.

(I love him, I love him, I LOVE him)

[kaxtwenty]

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't.

William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V scene I

[thefugitivesaint]

Henry Warren (1794-1879), 'Come Unto These Yellow Sands', ''The Art Journal'', May 1845

[artemlegere]

Prospero and Miranda (from William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act I Scene II

Artist: Henry Thomson RA (English, 1773-1843)

Date: c. 1804-1805

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Trust Collections, London, United Kingdom

Description

Prospero stands in the centre, in a cave, his back to the viewer, but towards Miranda on his right. Ferdinand approaches them from the beach with signs of a shipwreck behind whilst the spirit Ariel hovers above in the sky, playing music. It depicts the second scene in the first Act of the play after the daughter has declared: 'If by your art, my dearest father, you have / Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.'

[shakespearenews]

[danganronpafakes]

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Source: William Shakespeare (“The Tempest”)

[weirdlookindog]

Virgil Finlay - Ariel’s Song

(Famous Fantastic Mysteries - September 1942)

[sclappin]

New prints in my shop:

The homoerotic Dracula one

A weird little Shakespearean piece

Odysseus & Penelope

[derangedrhythms]

William Shakespeare, from 'The Tempest'