"No man is an island, entire of itself," John Donne famously reassured us in 1623, the same year Shakespeare's The Tempest was published in the First Folio. But "isolate" and "island" come from the ...

Prospero in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” claims partway through the play that “our revels now are ended.” We the audience know better. True, the actors of his little play within a play, “spirits,” have ...

“The Tempest”, the last of Shakespeare’s plays to be written alone, has captured academic and casual readers alike for generations. It is the play that has sparked a thousand adaptations and ...