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Prospero and Ariel: their origins and relationship
My essay is about William Shakespeare's last play The Tempest
written in " William A"
#uayle writer and bishop o$ the Methodist %pis&opal
hur&h wrote about him in one o$ his essays
that (We shall ne)er o)erestimate Shakespeare, be&ause we
&an not" Some men and things lie
beyond the danger o$ hyperbole" *o e+aggeration is possible
&on&erning them, seeing they
trans&end all dreams" Spa&e &an not be
&on&ei)ed by the most lu+uriant imagination, holding, as
it
does, all worlds, and &apable o$ holding another uni)erse
besides, and with room to spare" learly,
we &an not o)erestimate spa&e" Thought and
)o&abulary be&ome bankrupt when they attempt this
bewildering deed" enius is as immeasurable as spa&e"
Shakespeare &an not be measured"-
I &hoose two &hara&ters, Prospero and Ariel to
des&ribe" In my essay I would like to dis&o)er
the sour&e and probable meanings o$ the two
&hara&ters' names and I would like to show their
relationship whi&h I think is in &onne&tion with
their names" .irstly I will list the di$$erent sour&es
o$ their names whi&h I $ound in se&ondary readings, than
I would like to dis&uss the meaning o$
their names" Thirdly I would like to pro)e the relationship
between them with e+amples $rom the
drama"
There are $i)e probable sour&es $or Prospero's name
mentioned in an essay titled Prospero's
Table: The Name of Shakespeare's Duke of Milanwritten by Alan /"
0oung" The $irst is $rom The
Historye of Italyewritten by William Thomas where Prospero
Adorno eno)ese duke is $or&ed to
Some Words on 1o)ing Shakespeare $rom A 2ero and Some 3ther
.olk, The Methodist 4ook on&ern, 566"
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resign $rom his dukedom by the .regosi" The se&ond is
$romEvery Man in his Humour written by
4en 7onson where one &hara&ter is &alled Prospero"
The third is The Historie of Phillip de
ommineswhere there is also a re$eren&e to someone &alled
Prospero allone" The $ourth is
%dmond Malone's remark (that Prospero was the name o$ a
riding8master in 1ondon in
Shakespeare's time,"""- 90oung ;6
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Works ited
Shakespeare, William" The Tempest# The omplete $orks of $illiam
Shakespeare#The Te&h" Web"
Apr @;;
(The most $amous Huotations about William Shakespeare-"
Shakespeare8online"&om" Amanda
Mabillard" .eb @;;" Web" Apr @;;
7ohnson, W" Sta&y (The enesis o$ Ariel- Shakespeare
%uarterly, >ol" @, *o" L 97ul", 6ol" L;, *o" L 9Summer, 66
