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8 May 2024: 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. ... What’s struck me so often is how often Prospero speaks of his pain; he’s not just angry with Antonio,

ANTONIO  [aside to Sebastian] I am right glad that he’s so out of hope. ... ANTONIO  Let it be tonight,. For now they are oppressed with travail; they.

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

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

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!

ANTONIO  Noble Sebastian,. Thou let’st thy fortune sleep—die rather; wink’st. Whiles thou art waking. ... SEBASTIAN  Thou dost snore distinctly. There’s meaning in thy snores. ANTONIO  I am more serious than my custom.

PROSPERO  Whereon—. A treacherous army levied—one midnight. Fated to th’purpose did Antonio open. ... 1.2.127-135). Is it a literal or a metaphorical detail that Antonio himself opened the gates of Milan?

ANTONIO  My will is something sorted with his wish. Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed,. ... Antonio: do you want to go to Milan? Proteus: TOTALLY not my call!

ANTONIO  I’ll believe both;. And what does else want credit, come to me. ... Space is left for Antonio and Sebastian to be mocking; they are certainly not changed or especially moved.

SEBASTIAN  Well, I am standing water. ANTONIO  I’ll teach you how to flow. ... Antonio will teach him how to flow, in tidal terms, grow higher, whereas Sebastian comments that his hereditary sloth, either his lazy nature, his natural lack of ambition

Prospero’s brother Antonio learned these lessons very well, became perfect in them – and once he was, he took over all the people, supporters, counsellors, who had previously been Prospero’s ... But instead Antonio has been like rampant ivy,

1.2.97-106). The psychology here is penetrating: once Antonio is lorded, once he’s taken over, once he’s got control not just of the money, but of all ... Antonio is like someone who has told a lie so often that he now believes it to be true.

ANTONIO  I like thy counsel. Well hast thou advised. And that thou mayst perceive how well I like it,. ... 1.3.34-44). This is all excellent advice and I’m in complete agreement, says Antonio; I like thy counsel.

Ah yes, says Antonio, I know it well—perhaps with the implication, and I haven’t heard the last of it. ... Antonio: couldn’t agree more, Proteus needs to spread his wings (1.3.11-23) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare.

Enter Antonio and Pantino. ANTONIO  Tell me, Pantino, what sad talk was that. ... Antonio: couldn’t agree more, Proteus needs to spread his wings (1.3.11-23) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare.

With all the goings-on with Sebastian and Antonio, Gonzalo and Alonso, and not least Gonzalo’s reimagining of the island, it’s easy to forget its strangeness, and apparent hostility

I am afraid. He will chastise me. SEBASTIAN  Ha, ha! What things are these, my lord Antonio? ... The parallel is neatly underlined between Trinculo and Stephano, and Antonio and Sebastian.

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GONZALO  Had I plantation of this isle, my lord—. ANTONIO  He’d sow’t with nettle-seed. ... Antonio adds that he’s got carried away and has forgotten the beginning of his thought experiment, his fantasy.

Antonio chafing, a Duke in his own right, or so he thinks, but aware that he is reliant on Alonso for his dukedom, and therefore nitpicking, pointscoring, sarcastic.

ANTONIO  I’ll be thy second. Exeunt [Sebastian and Antonio]. GONZALO  All three of them are desperate: their great guilt,. ... Sebastian, of course, lashes out, with hubris: I’ll fight these devils. And Antonio, the same (but just a little bit

even better, finer and better-looking, than this hypothetical and in fact non-existent brave son of Antonio, the pretended Duke.

Here enters ARIEL before; then ALONSO with a frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO; SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO. ... If the stage is covered with rushes—opinions vary—then it’s hard to think what

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Proteus:! ; Antonio: No, son, you’re going to Milan TOMORROW, go and pack (1.3.72-77) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare.

Everything, animate and inanimate, is directed towards telling Antonio, Sebastian, and Alonso that it’s time for a reckoning, time for their comeuppance; fate has finally caught up with them. ... Bemocked-at stabs is a nice touch, suggesting scorn

DUKE Know ye Don Antonio, your countryman? VALENTINE Ay, my good lord, I know the gentleman. ... The Duke’s holding off saying who this might be; his questions might be genuine requests for information, but he might, like his daughter, be playing games:

To seal our happiness with their consents! O heavenly Julia!–. ANTONIO  How now? ... Antonio: do you want to go to Milan? Proteus: TOTALLY not my call!

Alonso, you have no idea…) But he makes up his mind on the spot: thy dukedom I resign, that is, he revokes his granting of that title to Antonio, and returns ... Prospero magnanimous (still), Sebastian cornered, Antonio silent… (5.1.125-134)

All drowned. (The brave son of the Duke of Milan – that is Antonio – is a loose end; he doesn’t appear in 1.1 and is never mentioned again.

Don’t trouble yourself, my lord: we’ll make a proper time to have that conversation, soon, single, just the two of us (so that Antonio and Sebastian can’t hear?

Exeunt Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo] (5.1.290-300). Alonso is politer than Sebastian and Antonio, much: this is a strange thing as e’er I looked on; it’s a

The detail that the mariners remained on board is going to be important for the plot: the King, Antonio, and their entourage and servants have to be separated from the ordinary

Antonio has ‘sp[a]t upon my Jewish gaberdine’, 1.3.

now the marriage – between Ferdinand and Miranda – but also, more generally, in relation to his plans regarding his brother Antonio, Alonso the king of Naples, and the dukedom of Milan.