ENG220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Disaster Film, Perfect Power
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The tempest scene has always been a place for theatres to think about what they can do. Can do this in film -allows for close up, enormous abilities for special effects. It reflects on what the theatre can do. A novel has a narrator, a voice that tells the story, in drama we don"t have one, things happen by showing rather than telling in theatre. When scholars use romance to describe plays, Figures confronting the possibility of loss often through storms. Miranda is the only female, alonso"s daughter is gone and married, miranda"s mother is gone. The play has always been read along a biographical version of shakespeare- it was his last play 1611, he dies in 1616, etc. Let go of this biographical reading of prospero as. He writes three plays after (last performed is. Tempest), this narrative says that the last work is the best, it"s a way of praising the play.
