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What happens during The Tempest's inciting event? We're glad you asked. No, really. Otherwise, we read the whole play for nothing. 

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

00:09

event last month Which characters are already on the island

00:16

Yeah so cross borough the main character has been on

00:19

the island for a while Prospero was duke of milan

00:23

and he's been ousted along with his daughter miranda They've

00:27

been on this island for twelve years so miranda's entire

00:30

life over the course of the play miranda meets a

00:32

few men and it's really important that these air like

00:35

the first people she's ever met what happens during the

00:39

place inciting event The inciting event for the play is

00:43

that there's a huge shipwreck king alonso is on his

00:48

way back to naples from having married off his daughter

00:52

he's on a ship full of his attendants his brother

00:56

his son and prospero knowing that they're coming sets off

01:00

huge storm there's a ship rack And then these men

01:04

in various groups are stranded on the island So they're

01:09

all stranded And really importantly all of these men think

01:12

that the others have died So take alonso is completely

01:15

convinced that his son has died and he's now without

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an heir Which characters are already on the island What 00:01:26.759 --> [endTime] happens during the play's inciting event

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