Project Gutenberg 2010-06-27 Public domain in the USA. 83 Kipling, Rudyard 1865 1936 Kipling, R. (Rudyard) Kipling, Joseph Rudyard Thorndike, Ashley Horace 1871 1933 Thorndike, Ashley H. 16024449 How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. "How Shakspere Came to Write the 'Tempest'" by Rudyard Kipling is an insightful essay written in the early 20th century that explores the creative genesis of Shakespeare's play, "The Tempest." It serves as a critical analysis and reconstruction of the inspiration behind the work, delving into the confluence of Shakespeare's imagination, the influences of his time, and the real-life events that may have sparked his creativity. Kipling's essay forms part of the "Papers on Playmaking" series published by the Dramatic Museum of Columbia University. In this essay, Kipling posits that Shakespeare drew upon various mundane and prosaic sources to depict the enchanting world of "The Tempest." He imagines a scenario where a stage manager overhears a drunken sailor recounting tales of shipwrecks and mysterious islands, suggesting that such conversations may have inspired the play's elements. Kipling meticulously connects the characters and events within "The Tempest" to the sailor's narrative and the broader context of Elizabethan drama and spectacle. Ultimately, he argues that the intertwining of reality and imaginative creativity is what birthed this profound theatrical work, showcasing Shakespeare's unique ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32991/32991-h/images/title.png en Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Tempest PR Text Browsing: Literature 69982 69965 2024-09-14T05:23:14.568719 2023-09-14T10:12:35.243298 text/html text/html 67365 2021-01-06T19:41:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 36099 2021-01-06T19:41:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 97419 2024-09-14T05:23:18.344709 application/epub+zip 95842 2024-09-14T05:23:16.109703 application/epub+zip 95843 2024-09-14T05:23:15.108711 application/epub+zip 238369 2024-09-14T05:23:20.106689 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 225432 2024-09-14T05:23:17.777686 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 225408 2022-09-15T07:21:55.051081 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 58960 58859 2024-09-14T05:23:14.322709 2023-09-14T10:12:35.026284 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 58875 2021-01-06T19:41:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 23650 2021-01-06T19:41:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 58864 2021-01-06T19:41:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 23633 2021-01-06T19:41:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20370 2024-09-14T05:23:20.247679 application/rdf+xml 17556 2024-09-14T05:23:15.448712 image/jpeg 4125 2024-09-14T05:23:15.276699 image/jpeg 96125 2024-09-14T05:23:14.578743 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia