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Tracing Shakespeare’S Sea-Change: From The Tempest To The New York Times, Joshua L. Comer
Tracing Shakespeare’S Sea-Change: From The Tempest To The New York Times, Joshua L. Comer
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An historical approach to the changing use of a Shakespearean phase, like “sea- change,” offers a case study in the long-standing power and evolving meaning of Shakespeare’s language. While all sea-changes today are not so major as those of which Ariel sang in The Tempest, the rich language of Ariel’s song has acquired a significant place in the history of American journalism.
Enchanted Islands Floating On The Foam Of Perilous Seas, Jean Macintyre
Enchanted Islands Floating On The Foam Of Perilous Seas, Jean Macintyre
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In localizing The Tempest on “an uninhabited island,” the 1623 Shakespeare Folio associates the setting with the floating island that some masque machines represented. Such machines acted as movable stages to transport masquers from within the set to the spot from which their dances would begin; other masques allege that their immobile sets were also floating islands. Though the stages, permanent or temporary, on which The Tempest was performed were not mobile, they nonetheless were a kind of island surrounded by spectators, on which the magician Prospero, aided by Ariel, writes, casts, and directs a play whose roles are unwittingly …