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The Tempest (Unabridged)
Written by:
William Shakespeare
Narrated by:
Miriam Esther Goldman
,
Annoying Twit
,
Ryan Dressler
,
Abigail Bartels
,
Lucy Perry
,
Bruce Pirie
,
Jason Mills
,
Nathan Markham
,
Great Plains
,
Arielle Lipshaw
,
Elizabeth Klett
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Release Date
May 5, 2023
Duration
1 hour 53 minutes
Summary
The Tempest by William Shakespeare Audiobook is a play by English playwright William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610-1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone. After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, a complex and contradictory character, lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel, an airy spirit.
The play contains music and songs that evoke the spirit of enchantment on the island. It explores many themes, including magic, betrayal, revenge, and family. In Act IV, a wedding masque serves as a play-within-a-play, and contributes spectacle, allegory, and elevated language.
Although The Tempest is listed in the First Folio as the first of Shakespeare's comedies, it deals with both tragic and comic themes, and modern criticism has created a category of romance for this and others of Shakespeare's late plays.
The Tempest has been put to varied interpretations, from those that see it as a fable of art and creation, with Prospero representing Shakespeare, and Prospero's renunciation of magic signaling Shakespeare's farewell to the stage, to interpretations that consider it an allegory of Europeans colonizing foreign lands.
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