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Below are some photos of Shakespeare in Delaware Park's 2009 production of The Tempest by William Shakespeare. It is drected by Derek Campbell, and stars Saul Elkin and Elexa Kopty. All photos by Lawrence Rowswell. |
The Ship's Master |
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"Good, speak to the mariners. Fall to't, yarely,
or we run ourselves aground." |
The Storm |
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| "Let's all sink with the King." |
Prospero and Miranda |
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"Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and
She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father Was Duke of Milan, and his only heir And princess no worse issued. " "O, the heavens! What foul play had we that we came from thence? Or bless'd was't we did?" Both, both, my girl. By foul play, as thou sayst, were we heaved thence, But blessedly holp hither." |
Ariel |
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"All hail, great master, grave sir, hail! I come
To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curled clouds, to thy strong bidding task Ariel and all his quality." |
Caliban |
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"I must eat my dinner.
This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me, wouldst give me Water and berries in't, and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee, And showed thee all the qualities o' the isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile Cursed be I that did so! All the charms Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you! For I am all the subjects that you have, Which first was mine own king, and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me The rest o' the island." |
Ariel and Ferdinand |
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"Full fathom five thy father lies.
Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Hark! Now I hear them--Ding Dong Bell." |
Ferdinand meets Miranda as Prospero looks on |
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"I might call him
A thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble." "Most sure, the goddess On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer May know if you remain upon this island, And that you will some good instruction give How I my bear me here. My prime request, Which I do last pronounce, is O you wonder! If you be maid or no?" "No wonder, sir, But certainly a maid." |
Gonzalo and Alonso |
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"Beseech you, sir, be merry. You have cause,
So have we all, of joy; for our escape Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe Is common; every day some sailor's wife The masters of some merchant, and the merchant Have just our theme of woe; but for the miracle, I mean our preservation, few in millions Can speak like us. Then wisely, good sir, weigh Our sorrow with our comfort." "Prithe, peace." |
Antonio draws his weapon |
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"Ay, sir, where lies that? If 'twere a kibe,
'Twould put me to my slipper, but I feel not This deity in my bosom. Twenty consciences That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candied be they And melt ere they molest! Here lies your brother, No better than the earth he lies upon If he were that which now he's likeâ€"that's dead; Whom I with this obedient steel, three inches of it, Can lay to bed for ever; whiles you, doing thus, To the perpetual wink of aye might put This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, who Should not upbraid our course. For all the rest, They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk; They'll tell the clock to any business that We say befits the hour." |
Caliban fetching wood |
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"Lo, now, lo,!
Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me For bringing wood in slowly, I'll fall flat. Perchance he will not mind me." |
Trinculo comes upon the hiding Caliban |
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"What have we here a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells
like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of not-of-the-newest Poor-John. A strange fish!" |
Trinculo and Stephano |
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"Thou art very Trinculo indeed!
How cam'st thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? can he vent Trinculos?" "I took him to be killed with a thunder-stroke. But art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope now thou art not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine for fear of the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O Stephano, two Neapolitans scaped!" |
Caliban drinks |
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Ferdinand and Miranda |
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"I am in my condition
A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king I would not so! and would no more endure This wooden slavery than to suffer The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it; and for your sake Am I this patient log-man." "Do you love me?" "O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound, And crown what I profess with kind event If I speak true! If hollowly invert What best is boded me to mischief! I, Beyond all limit of what else i' the world, Do love, prize, honour you." "I am a fool to weep at what I am glad of." |
Caliban and Stephano |
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"I say, by sorcery he got this isle;
From me he got it. If thy greatness will Revenge it on him for I know thou dar'st, But this thing dare not..." |
Ariel overhears the plot |
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"Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him,
I' th' afternoon to sleep. There thou mayst brain him, Having first seized his books, or with a log, Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember First to possess his books, for without them He's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not One spirit to command: they all do hate him As rootedly as I. Burn but his books. He has brave utensils, for so he calls them, Which when he has a house, he'll deck withal. And that most deeply to consider is The beauty of his daughter. He himself Calls her a nonpareil. I never saw a woman, But only Sycorax my dam and she; But she as far surpasseth Sycorax As great'st does least." "Is it so brave a lass?" "Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant. And bring thee forth brave brood." "Monster, I will kill this man. His daughter and I will be king and queen--save our graces!--and Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys. Dost thou like the plot, Trinculo?" "Excellent." |
Gonzalo and Alonzo |
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"By'r lakin, I can go no further, sir.
My old bones ache. Here's a maze trod indeed Through forthrights and meanders! By your patience, I needs must rest me." "Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Who am myself attached with weariness, To th' dulling of my spirits. Sit down and rest. Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it No longer for my flatterer. He is drowned Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go." |
Ariel and Prospero |
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"What, Ariel! My industrious servant, Ariel!"
"What would my potent master? Here I am." "Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service Did worthily perform, and I must use you In such another trick. Go bring the rabble, O'er whom I give thee power, here to this place. Incite them to quick motions; for I must Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple Some vanity of mine art. It is my promise, And they expect it from me." "Presently?" "Ay, with a twink." |
The Masque |
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Prospero and Ariel |
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"Thy thoughts I cleave to. What's thy pleasure?"
"Spirit, We must prepare to meet with Caliban." |
Ariel brings the castaways to Prospero |
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"A solemn air, and the best comforter
To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains, Now useless, boiled within thy skull." |
Miranda and Ferdinand |
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"Sir, she is mortal;
But by immortal providence she's mine. I chose her when I could not ask my father For his advice, nor thought I had one. She Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, Of whom so often I have heard renown, But never saw before; of whom I have Received a second life; and second father This lady makes him to me." |
The Boatswain and the Master |
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"The best news is that we have safely found
Our King and company; the next, our ship, Which but three glasses since we gave out split, Is tight and yare and bravely rigged as when We first put out to sea." |
Trinculo and Stephano captured |
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"I have been in such a pickle since I saw you last that,
I fear me, will never out of my bones. I shall not fear fly-blowing." |
Prospero, Miranda and Ferdinand |
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"Go quick away: the story of my life
And the particular accidents gone by Since I came to this isle. And in the morn I'll bring you to your ship, and so to Naples, Where I have hope to see the nuptial Of these our dear-belov'd solemnized; And thence retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave." |
Prospero frees Ariel |
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"I'll deliver all,
And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales And sail so expeditious that shall catch Your royal fleet far off. My Ariel, chick, That is thy charge. Then to the elements Be free, and fare thou well!" |
Prospero |
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"Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint. Now, ’tis true I must be here confined by you Or sent to Naples. Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got, And pardoned the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell; But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands: Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant, And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardoned be, Let your indulgence set me free." |
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