Chickens! Cultural Moment: The Tempest

A little while back, coinciding with Carrie's bday, there was super-fun Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan time. This year was The Tempest, a delightful play showcasing everything we love about Shakespeare: dry wit, young idiots falling in love with each other on sight, various rustics and comic relief figures, public drunkenness, clearly evil grotesqueries of nature, magic, a lesson on not to be too vengeful (just vengeful enough), gay fairies, paternalistic monarch figures, and all delivered with artistic flair and quotable dialogue- everything you could want in an evening at the theatre.

Fun things to learn and know:

The Tempest was probably written aroung 1610 and is generally touted as the last play written solely by Shakspeare himself.

Caliban is also a 5-piece German metacore band with Slayer/Hatebreed/Poison the Well influences.

The image below is of the painting Miranda the Tempest by John William Waterhouse, an artist that the Moth enjoys.














Quotable Notables:

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
Miranda, Act 1 Scene 2

You taught me language; and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse: the red plague rid you,
For learning me your language.
Caliban Act 1 Scene 2

He receives comfort like cold porridge.
Sebastian, Act 2 Scene 1

When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Trinculo, Act 2 Scene 2

How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!
Miranda Act 5 Scene 1