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Drowning Prospero’s Books

  In our seminar group for Arts One this week we puzzled over several things in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, including why Prospero drowns his books at the end. In the play he says he is going to do so: But this rough magic I here abjure; and when I have required Some heavenly music–which even […]

Posted in blogs, lb4-2015 | Tagged with Greenaway, Prospero's Books, Shakespeare, The Tempest

The Tempest and Prospero’s Books

Prospero loves his books above anything else. While he was the duke of Milan he was too busy in study to be an adequate ruler and hence lost his position of power. When he is telling Miranda about their exile from Milan he says that Gonzalo packed them things and “knowing I loved my books, […]

Posted in blogs, lb4-2015 | Tagged with Greenaway, Prospero's Books, Shakespeare, The Tempest

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