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Instructions Plays are meant to be performed, rather than read. The purpose of dramatic arts often extends far beyond the words written on a page; staging, lighting, costumes intonation, expression , and audience experience are all part of the experience of a theatrical production. To develop your ...

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Chamberlain School of Nursing

HUMN 303N

Week 4 Assignment: Essay- Play Analysis




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, Play Analysis- The Tempest 2


William Shakespeare is known for many things some good and bad, but mostly for his

artistic view on the world displayed in poems and plays. One of his more known plays is The

Tempest, written in approximately 1610. Rumor has it that this was one of his last plays he

masterfully wrote. Many works of Shakespeare are dark and show a side a lot of people do not

delve into, but he managed to capture every feeling humanly possible and even provide the

audience with comedic relief. Shakespeare’s works have been taught, studied and recreated for

centuries as it is a part of American culture forever.

In June of 2014 the Savage Rose Classical Theatre Company performed their rendition of

The Tempest and recorded it for all to see. The staging could be described as simple with no

exaggeration to it. There were two staircases used for actors to enter and exit the stage between

their scenes. In the play the main character, Prospero, does a lot on his own and there was a

section on the stage for him to stand or sit when needed without disturbance of moving sets

around. To provide the audience with the mysterious ambience Shakespeare liked to have in his

played they made the lighting dim almost completely dark. In addition to the ambience the

lighting provided it was also to keep the audiences’ attention on center stage. As the play goes on

to show the different characters as they appeared, they used soft spotlights. The costumes were

meek as that was suiting for the time era in which this play was meant for. Though meek no

costume looked the same as it helped aid in the visualization of each character as their own. The

tones at the beginning felt vengeful and progressed into remorseful and forgiving. Many could

interpret the mood swings and tone changes in the play as neoclassical. Neoclassical is a style

termed for Western movements in decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music and

architecture that feeds on the inspiration of classical art and culture (Neoclassical, 2019). This is

style is displayed as two main characters start to love one another. As in most of Shakespeare’s




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