ShmoopTube

Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.

Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos

Shakespeare's The Tempest: Shmoopversations


Play All
0
Shakespeare's The Tempest 1 History
329 Views

Is The Tempest Shakespeare's final play? How does it differ from his other plays? What kind of literature does The Tempest most resemble? Why are w...

1
Shakespeare's The Tempest 2 Prospero's Powers
134 Views

Does Prospero have magical powers? And if he does, could he get us into Hogwarts? We've been waiting so patiently...

2
Shakespeare's The Tempest 3 Inciting Event
85 Views

What happens during The Tempest's inciting event? We're glad you asked. No, really. Otherwise, we read the whole play for nothing. 

3
Shakespeare's The Tempest 4 The Supernatural
94 Views

What makes Ariel and Caliban supernatural entities in Shakespeare's The Tempest? Find out the role Prospero plays in each's characterization.

4
Shakespeare's The Tempest 5 Confinement
60 Views

How does the theme of confinement play a role in The Tempest? How does imagination tie into this feeling of confinement? Can we just imagine the an...

5
Shakespeare's The Tempest 6 Main Characters
388 Views

Which characters are on the island when The Tempest starts, and which characters end up joining the party, post-shipwreck? Spoiler alert: the answe...

8
Shakespeare's The Tempest 9 Side Plot
39 Views

Time to check out the side plots in The Tempest, because what play is complete without a couple of buffoons drinking their way across an island?...