The Tempest. E-book. Formato EPUB - 9791221373325

The Tempest. E-book. Formato EPUB. <u><b>The Tempest by William Shakespeare</b></u>&nbsp;is a&nbsp;play&nbsp;by English playwright&nbsp;William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610&ndash;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&nbsp;sorcerer&nbsp;Prospero, a complex and contradictory character, lives with his daughter&nbsp;Miranda, and his two servants:&nbsp;Caliban, a savage monster figure, and&nbsp;Ariel, an airy spirit.<br /><br />The play contains music and songs that evoke the spirit of enchantment on the island. It explores many themes, including&nbsp;magic, betrayal, revenge, and family. In Act IV, a wedding&nbsp;masque&nbsp;serves as a&nbsp;play-within-a-play, and contributes spectacle, allegory, and elevated language.<br />Although&nbsp;<i>The Tempest</i>&nbsp;is listed in the&nbsp;First Folio&nbsp;as the first of Shakespeare&#39;s comedies, it deals with both tragic and comic themes, and modern criticism has created a category of&nbsp;romance for this and others of Shakespeare&#39;s late plays.&nbsp;<br /><br /><i>The Tempest</i>&nbsp;has been put to varied interpretations, from those that see it as a fable of art and creation, with Prospero representing Shakespeare, and Prospero&#39;s renunciation of magic signaling Shakespeare&#39;s farewell to the stage, to interpretations that consider it an allegory of Europeans colonizing foreign lands.