Prospero Quotes

• One of the reasons [William] Shakespeare is so endlessly fascinating is that you can look at that figure from about 10 different angles: Caliban in Shakespeare's day was probably viewed as a sort of comic, barbarian type, but into the 19th century there were productions where Caliban was the hero. He's a potential rapist of a minor. Is that a good thing? No, it is not. On the other hand, Prospero's got him cooped up in a cave and tortures him if he doesn't do what Prospero wants. Is that a good thing? No. Shakespeare doesn't let you off easy.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hero, Hands, Looks

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• En el final feliz de la Tempestad, Próspero reúne de nuevo a los bondadosos con su hijo, encuentra el verdadero amor de Miranda, castiga al duque malo, libera a Ariel y vuelve a ser duque. Todo el mundo -excepto Calibán- es feliz, y todo el mundo es perdonado, y todo el mundo está bien, y todos navegan por mares tranquilos. Finales felices. Así es en Shakespeare. Pero Shakespeare se equivocaba. A veces no hay un Próspero que haga que todo vuelva a ir bien. Y a veces la calidad de la misericordia es tensa.

  Gary D.

  Hijo, Mar, Calidad

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• Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.

  A. S. Byatt

  Lying, Book, Air

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• Auden, que le pedía dos cosas a un mundo imaginado -que se pareciera en algo al nuestro y en algo no-, sería el lector ideal de Ben Marcus, pero incluso sin el nefasto programa del poeta, este universo alternativo, hilarante y sexy, me ha cautivado por completo. Imagínense: todo se hace con palabras en lugar de espejos, mucho más fiable y mucho más desgarrador. Así cautiva Próspero a su tripulación.

  Richard Howard

  Sexy, Tomada, Espejos

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• Sometimes, of course, the artist does give up, saying, in effect, "I've done enough". Prospero declares that the revels are ended, and breaks his staff - his author retires to Stratford. At the very end, Mann did something similar. Interestingly, in both instances, death came quite quickly after that.

  Philip Kitcher

  Giving Up, Artist, Doe

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles for a brief period of time and then gone, as when Prospero describes the pageant fading, leaving "not a rack behind."

  Martha Ronk

  Play, Leaving, Gone

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.

  Margaret Atwood

  Saws, Doe, Film

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