Dramaturgy: Scripts, props, staging, rehearsals, actors, directors, writers, musicians, stage managers, audiences and performances combined to create the dramaturgical impression of value, need, and agency. William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Dream and harsh reality, magic and reason, unyielding power and revenge on the one hand and forgiveness on the other, co-exist in this symbolic tale, this masterly "swansong" of Shakespearean dramaturgy. The central character is Prospero, the duke of Milan, who finds himself exiled on a …showed first 75 words of 391 total…

…showed last 75 words of 391 total…The Tempest with specific problems or advances of knowledge, thus showing that the play reflected inventive proto-scientific modes of confronting the physical, biological, and human realms. It also argues that Shakespeare's play mirrored a new tendency to reject earlier revival dreams of achieving omission and power. The play reflected a newer hope for knowledge based on speculative boldness linked with close observation, rational and sober precision, and a radical capacity to accept limitation and not-knowing.