Category: The Tempest

Thank you to Nicholas Moschovakis for leading our way into The Tempest.

Nicholas Moschovakis is a past member of the Shakespeare Quarterly board of editors and coeditor, with Sean Keilen, of The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature (2017), to which he contributed a chapter on Shakespeare, rhetoric, and dialectic. Past publications include essays on classical allusion in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet as well as an edited volume, Macbeth: New Critical Essays(Routledge, 2008).

Many thanks to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.

Here are some resources to help guide your way into The Tempest:

• Resources, character map, and infographic from Course Hero.
• Find good resources on The Tempest from the Royal Shakespeare Company and TeacherVision.
• An interesting article on reading The Tempest through a postcolonial lens from The British Library.
• View a synopsis of the play from Animated Books and Finger Puppet Shakespeare.
• Listen to a full audiobook performance.
• Watch The Show Must Go Online’s recent Zoom performance of the show.
• See full staged performances from Savage Rose Theatre or the Royal Shakespeare Company.
• At least at the moment, Julie Taymor’s 2010 film version of The Tempest is on YouTube.

Thanks for Dan Hainsworth for letting us use his Shakespeare icons, as shown above right.

Enjoy these images of The Tempest from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Find more here.