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still loved him (and so Antonio and his faction didn’t want to provoke them into an uprising in Prospero’s defence) and also that they wouldn’t want to be ... Antonio and the king of Navarre and those doing their dirty work with colours fairer

San Antonio Mobile Truck Repair 7 months ago. The clinamen wrests will from destiny, Lucretius writes, and allows human beings to go where their desire takes them.

is for, that is, it is to complete Prospero’s enchantment, fulfil his purpose, the spell that he is casting upon Antonio, Alonso the King, and the other Neapolitans, and perhaps

ANTONIO  Here lies your brother,. No better than the earth he lies upon. ... fact Antonio is going to kill Alonso, Sebastian’s brother, not Sebastian himself.

But now he volunteers information, giving far more back-story than seems necessary, and like Antonio and Sebastian, Stephano and Trinculo, Prospero monsters Caliban; he is this misshapen knave.

ALONSO  I heard nothing. ANTONIO  O, ’twas a din to fright a monster’s ear—. ... Pride, one can imagine Sebastian mouthing, in frustration at Antonio’s over-enthusiasm, lions come in prides – the term was already current.

A deflection, therefore, which is also a crucial question, not least in confirming, for the audience, who Antonio is: I remember you did supplant your brother Prospero. ... Don’t have one, not bothered, says Antonio. Where do I keep my conscience?

thought of this possibility at all until he was led astray by Antonio? ... although certainly not the vast and dangerous distance so colourfully described by Antonio.

EnterALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO and others. GONZALO  Beseech you, sir, be merry. ... Sebastian and Antonio, as they did in 1.1, snipe from the sidelines.

ANTONIO  And the rarest that e’er came there. SEBASTIAN  Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido. ... Gonzalo begins again in good time, according to Antonio, regular as clockwork, unable to keep quiet for long.

What’s struck me so often is how often Prospero speaks of his pain; he’s not just angry with Antonio, for instance, but desperately hurt by him.

Rather, Alonso, Antonio, and Sebastian are all three distracted, maddened, out of their wits, while their courtiers (the luckless, near-lineless Adrian and Francisco) can only watch, brimful of sorrow and ... named; here Antonio is only implicitly

ANTONIO  If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not say he lies?

nothing. ANTONIO  ’Twas you we laughed at. GONZALO  Who, in this kind of merry fooling, am nothing to you, so you may continue and laugh at nothing still. ... ANTONIO  What a blow was there given! SEBASTIAN  An it had not fallen flat-long.

SEBASTIAN  No marrying ’mongst his subjects? ANTONIO  None, man, all idle—whores and knaves. ... Again Antonio equates idleness with immorality, but Gonzalo is adamant: I would with such perfection govern t’excel the Golden Age.

Alonso, Sebastian and Antonio draw their swords.] (3.3.53-60SD). As I’ve noted before, The Tempest is – perhaps unexpectedly – full of the language of sin and other theologically inflected ... The stage direction is editorial, but it seems

Home, both in word and […]. Here enters ARIEL before; then ALONSO with a frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO; SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO.

No comment, then, from Antonio, or from the King to Antonio, but rather what begins as a wondering request for information from the King: how on earth did you survive? ... Prospero magnanimous (still), Sebastian cornered, Antonio silent… (5.1.125-134)

ANTONIO  Thus, sir:. Although this lord of weak remembrance—this. Who shall be of as little memory. ... That he’s undrowned. ANTONIO  O, out of that ‘no hope’,. What great hope have you!

GONZALO  Not since widow Dido’s time. ANTONIO  Widow? A pox o’that. ... ANTONIO  And sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring forth more islands!