ENG220H1 Lecture : ENG220 Tempest
Document Summary
First recorded perf: halloween 1611 (all saints/souls day, day after. Text based on the only authoritative texts in first folio 1623. Door between spirit world and material world opens, transfer between worlds. One of 14 plays performed to celebrate betrothal and marriage of. Elizabeth, daughter of james i, to frederick, elector palatine. Masque; music, dance, precursor form to opera, multimedia capacity. Silvester jourdan, a discovery of the bermudas (1610) William strachey, a true repertory of the wracke (1610) Account of 9 english ships that were found for jamestown colony in. Virginia were scattered by a storm, and one (sea venture) was wrecked on one of the bermudas crew lived there for 9-10 months, survived an attempted mutiny and finally built 2 boats to reach virginia. First contact; savage/barbarian, cannibal/caliban, early colonial discourses. Curiosities about world, technologies to allow transit and exploration, navigation. Desirous to know hat was the primitive of original language. Origin of language and language of origins.
