Introduction to Literature Module 1.8

The Tempest

Study Guide: Introduction to Literature (Excellence in Literature, English 1)

Focus Text

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Honors: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

NOTE: This is a play, written to be seen and heard. I strongly recommend watching or listening to it, or at least a portion of it.

The Tempest video: http://amzn.to/2rpxrRX

The Tempest audio: http://amzn.to/2rps70S

EIL 1.8 Context Resource Links

These links represent only the online resources referenced in this module. Instructions, background information, offline resources, and assignments are all found in the Excellence in Literature study guide listed above.

Readings

Shakespeare by Peter Chrisp

http://www.bardweb.net/grammar/grammar.html

http://www.absoluteshakespeare.com/guides/tempest/tempest.htm

http://elizabethan.org/compendium/

http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Elizabethan_life.htm

Lamb version

Poesies: https://archive.is/Eo99b

About the Author

https://www.bardweb.net/bio.html

http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/timeline/timeline.htm

http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/life/lifesubj.html

https://shakespeareauthorship.com

Poetry

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? by William Shakespeare

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/poetry-by-shakespeare-contemporaries

The Storm by John Donne

Caliban upon Setebos by Robert Browning

http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/

Audio

The Tempest audio: http://amzn.to/2rps70S

/speak-the-speech.org/the-readings/the-tempest/

Video

Watch the BBC production: http://amzn.to/2qBhIw4

Visual Arts

http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/about-us/virtual-tour

http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Miranda1.html

http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Romney.Tempest.html

http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Goodall.Miranda.html

http://www.tate.org.uk/

Music

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/tempest-overture-tchaikovsky

https://houstonsymphony.org/tchaikovsky-tempest/

http://www.shakespeareinamericanlife.org/stage/music/tempest/index.cfm

https://www.orsymphony.org/concerts-tickets/1920/sibelius-the-tempest/

http://www.curtisclark.org/emusic/renaissa.html

https://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited/duke-ellington

https://www.npr.org/2011/06/17/4543727/duke-ellington-such-sweet-thunder

Places to Go

http://www.americanshakespearecenter.com/

http://www.folger.edu/index.cfm

http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/

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