Tempest Character List and # of lines in original script

Tempest Scripts

• CoastShakespeare's abridged script v2 (fewer lines than original), subject to further changes

• Internet Shakespeare’s overview, First Folio script, and unabridged modern script with linked definitions

• Folger Shakespeare Library's plot synopsis and full script

• LitCharts overview and side-by-side original and modern translation

Tempest Performance Videos

Shakespeare is meant to be seen or heard, not read. In Shakespeare's day, only about 30% of men and 10% of women could read. You went to the theatre to "hear" a play.

• Shakespeare's Globe Theatre's 2103 stage production in 16thC period - 3 min trailer, or purchase full show for 10 GBP

• Stratford Festival's 2019 full stage production and 2010 Epilogue with Christopher Plummer as Prospero

• Lord Chamberlain's Men 2018 outdoor production

• Helen Mirren as Prospera in Julie Taymor's 2010 film

• Shakespeare Network's full-play audiobook

Tempest Literary Resources

• Caliban's Debut

• Caliban and Colonialism in the Tempest

• Shakespeare For All's podcast about Tempest (all 3 episodes available on Spotify or Apple Podcasts)

• A Modern Perspective: The Tempest

Actors' Resources for Tempest

• Scene breakdown of Tempest, with original number of lines per scene and per character

• OpenSource Shakespeare's speeches of each character, with optional cue lines

• Royal Shakespeare Company's Live Lesson on Tempest Act I Scene II and other Learning Videos

• Shakespeare With Sarah Actor's Guide to Miranda and Ferdinand

Actors’ Resources for Performing Shakespeare

• ShakespearesWords - best Glossary of Shakespearean words and names, with pronunciations (click the speaker icon; apostrophe comes just before the stressed syllable) - paid subscription

• Free Glossary from Lexistry

• Note that "thee" and "thou" are informal, and "you" is formal (like "tu" and "vous" in French), and the exclamation "marry" is pronounced with a short "a" sound, as "MAHRR-ee" (not same as the verb "to marry" or the adjective "merry").

• For natural yet powerful delivery of Shakespeare's words, few can match Benedict Cumberbatch. Watch his Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech.

• ShakespeareWithSarah Youtube channel

  • Speaking in iambic pentameter

  • How to act Shakespeare

• Ben Crystal's ShakespeareOnToast Youtube channel

  • What's Iambic Pentameter? (5 min)

  • How to Map a Shakespeare Speech (18 min, well worth it)

  • The First Folio, and a 1676 working script copy (9 min)

  • Although Shakespearean Original Pronunciation (10 min, shot in the Globe Theatre) is fascinating, our production will be (mostly) in ordinary Western Canadian.

• What is an Italian Run?

• Theatre Pro app (iPhone or iPad, $17) bundle of Shakespeare Pro, Script To Go, and Soliloquy Pro

Renaissance Dance teaching videos

• Galliard (also "Cinquepace" after its five steps - or, if you're Sir Toby, "Sink-a-pace"), a fast triple-meter kicking dance

• Coranto (also "Courante"), a not-so-fast triple-meter skipping dance

• Bransle (Washerwoman's Bransle - we like the scolding fingers), a duple-meter stomping dance

• Pavan (also "pavane" or "pavin"), a stately duple-meter parade around the room, to show off your fancy clothes

Sunshine Coast Community Shakespeare Project

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