The Tempest (Dryden and D'Avenant play)
The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island is a
The Dryden–D’Avenant adaptation premiered at the
Dryden and D'Avenant keep a great deal of Shakespeare's verse, but generally tone the play down, simplifying grammar and language occasionally, removing much of the "mythic resonance" of the original, and adding a fair amount of their own invention. The added elements include new characters – Hippolito, a man who has never seen a woman, and Dorinda, a second daughter of Prospero. Hippolito and Dorinda, predictably, fall in love; their love parallels that between Miranda, Shakespeare's maiden who has never seen a man, and Ferdinand, son to the Duke of Mantua (or to the King of Naples in Shakespeare's version). Ariel is given an ethereal girlfriend in Milcha (Shadwell expanded her role in 1674). Even Caliban gets a sister.
Shadwell's 1674 operatic version of Dryden and D'Avenant's adaptation was mocked by Thomas Duffet in his farce The Mock Tempest, or the Enchanted Castle, also in 1674.[3]
References
- OCLC 310876195.
- OCLC 5548452243
- OCLC 589050.
External links
- The Tempest public domain audiobook at LibriVox