The exiled sorcerer-duke Prospero wrecks his usurping brother's ship on his enchanted island, commanding the spirit Ariel and the monstrous Caliban to orchestrate his revenge and reconciliation.
Books that mention The Tempest (25)
Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: ““Full fathom deep thy father lies; Of his bones are corals made; Those are pearls which were his eyes;”
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller: “Perhaps next week I shall have some more books, "The Tempest," "A Midsummer Night's Dream"”
Ulysses by James Joyce: “in Much Ado about Nothing, twice in As you like It, in The Tempest, in Hamlet”
The Magus by John Fowles: “It was not, given the end of The Tempest, difficult to guess why. (Prospero/Miranda/Ferdinand/Caliban recur throughout.)”
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern: Epigraph opening Part V: "Our revels now are ended... We are such stuff / As dreams are made on; and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep." —PROSPERO, THE TEMPEST, ACT IV, SCENE 1
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov: “He exchanged his frogged uniform for a scholar's dressing gown and tackled The Tempest.”
Among Others by Jo Walton: “We’re also going to be reading The Tempest and some Keats.”
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow: ““Had he done this,” wrote Washington, quoting Shakespeare’s The Tempest, “he would … have found many of his charges as unsupported as the ‘baseless fabric of a vision.’”36 Starting in November 1791 and running for more than a year, James Madison publi”
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy: “Baby Kochamma, who had been put in charge of their formal education, had read them an abridged version of The Tempest by Charles and Mary Lamb. (Elsewhere the twins recite Ariel's song from it: "Where the bee sucks, there suck I / In a cowslip's bell I lie.") Normalized to Shakespeare's play, the canonical work being retold; in-text the…”
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag: “Most Elizabethan serious drama consists of failed tragedies (Lear, Doctor Faustus) or successful metaplays (Hamlet, The Tempest).”
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara: “watching as she sketched designs for a production of The Tempest...”
Letting Go by Philip Roth: “"And what do you feel like instead?" "A—the girl in The Tempest. What's her name?" ... "Prospero's daughter—"”
Artful by Ali Smith: “his late plays, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest”
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson: “Clayton's Demea sounds like a strangely laid-back, Byronic version of Prospero at the end of The Tempest”
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: “192. Cf. The Tempest, I. ii.”
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “…might be illustrated by a thousand examples from his Plays. I have before me the Tempest, and will cite only these few lines.”
The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge: “CHAPTER 2 If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't. --THE TEMPEST”
The Pirate by Walter Scott: “Nothing in him---- But doth suffer a sea-change. _Tempest._”
L'Homme qui Rit by Victor Hugo: “It was very like the Globe, where they played "Othello," "King Lear," and "The Tempest."”
In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne: “He reminds me of your great Shakespeare's boatswain in the 'Tempest,' who says to the king on board: 'Hence! What care these roarers for the name of king? To cabin! Silence! Trouble us not.'”
Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan by W. G. Aston: “In Shakespeare’s Tempest, Iris is at once the rainbow and an anthropomorphic messenger of the gods. Phoebus is not only the sun but a deity distinct from that luminary, though associated with it, as in the story of Phaeton.”