1611 works: 1611 books, 1611 plays, Authorized King James Version, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's - Tapa blanda

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: 1611 books, 1611 plays, Authorized King James Version, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's, The Second Maiden's Tragedy, A King and No King, Greene's Tu Quoque, Oberon, the Faery Prince, Parthenia, Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly, Karr-Koussevitzky, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, 1611 in literature, Coryat's Crudities, Match Me in London, Runa ABC, Catiline His Conspiracy, Vocabulario manual de las lenguas castellana y mexicana, Ignatius His Conclave, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Excerpt: The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610-11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place, using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure to the island his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit Alonso, King of Naples. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio's low nature, the redemption of Alonso, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso's son, Ferdinand. There is no obvious single source for the plot of The Tempest, but researchers have seen parallels in Erasmus's Naufragium, Peter Martyr's De orbo novo, and an eyewitness report by William Strachey of the real-life shipwreck of the Sea Venture on the islands of Bermuda. In addition, one of Gonzalo's speeches is derived from Montaigne's essay Of the Canibales; and much of Prospero's renunciative speech is taken word for word from a speech by Medea in Ovid's poem Metamorphoses. The masque in Act 4 may have been a later addition, possibly in honour of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia and Frederick V, Elector Palatine, in 1613. The play was first publish...