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History: Spoken
by Prospero in The Tempest by William Shakespeare. The Tempest is
perhaps the most magical of Shakespeare’s plays, being first given at
court in 1611. Prospero, the master magician controls the supernatural
island that forms the scene of the play and the actions of the
shipwrecked characters who land upon it. Prospero is said by some to
embody Shakespeare’s own philosophy, representing both the power of
knowledge and the mysteries of the human condition. From Act
IV, sc 1, Line
155: “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is
rounded with a sleep.”
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