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Thank you We sneak in Shakespeare's plays the tempest history

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i last knew Is the tempest shakespeare's final play Yeah

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so it's read as his final play probably written between

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sixteen ten and sixteen eleven and shakespeare passed away a

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few years later in sixteen sixteen how does the tempest

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different from shakespeare's Other place So this place is totally

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detached in a couple of ways It takes place on

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an island It takes place sort of like outside of

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time because you have people traveling there and getting stranded

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there It's also a play that's very reflective about what

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it means to create a world which is what shakespeare's

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been doing his entire career What kind of literature does

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the tempest most resemble Does a log history and kind

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of near classical literature So greek tragedies come from kind

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of a greek or a roman nation state a very

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isolated space and thus tend to have a unity of

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place They take place on one island Ordered one town

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one location a unity of time They take place over

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a very short period of time a single day traditionally

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and this play is working with all those trips to

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so it would have been very recognisable to its contemporary

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audience But it's also easily read within a long tradition

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Classical literature Is the tempest shakespeare's final play How does

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the tempest differ from shakespeare's Other place What kind of 00:01:45.759 --> [endTime] literature does the tempest most resemble you

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