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Plots to William Shakespeare were as pots to a busy wizard-any old tub, begged, borrowed or stolen, would do to mix the magic in. In The Tempest, for instance, the plot is the tired old story about a nobleman, bilked of his estates, who takes refuge on a distant island, and mild revenge on his enemies when they are shipwrecked there. Yet in this common vessel, Shakespeare stirred a wizard's brew of steaming language and the rich juice of 30 years' experience; the mixture mulled, at the last stir of the action, into a fine philosophical...
...readers of her earlier novels (Black Narcissus, A Candle for St. Jude) may expect, the Godden brew is not much more than cambric tea, and though its prose has a refreshing bouquet and its flavor of idyl is cut by lemon slices of irony, the book is still a Tempest in a teapot. Author Godden gracefully recognizes the fact by calling her novel not a Tempest but A Breath...
...life & times of himself and his I.R.A. friends. Redemption, a feverish search for a new "breadth of understanding," is the product of that reconsideration. Though written in the overwrought, pseudo-prophetic manner of D. H. Lawrence's later novels, it is a fascinating book. Its central character, a tempest-tossed Irishman named Ezra Arrigho, has spent the war in Germany and has just returned to Ireland to settle down in a little town. What can he say of it? Scornfully, Ezra decides that most of its people live dull, stagnant lives in little duck ponds while secretly hoping...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). The Tempest...
This report, the first public statement by the fund chairman since last spring, stated that about $5,600 of the original $10,000 goal has already been received through letter solicitation and through the benefit performance of "The Tempest" last May by the Harvard Theater Workshop...