yes, I had a trip to the "Bermoothes" some years ago. Didn't much care for
the
place.
JPW wrote:
> On Jul 26, 6:57 am, Daniel Kessler <dkess...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > JPW wrote:
> > > On Jul 24, 6:41 am, Daniel Kessler <dkess...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> >
> > > > It is the only Shakespeare play wherein Shakespeare invented the
plot,
> > > > characters, et al...all of his other plays were a redo of someone
else's
> > > > efforts...and at the end of the day ...he couldn't figure out how
to end
> >
> > > There's no specific source for "A Midsummer Night's Dream," or
"Love's
> > > Labour's Lost," and so "The Tempest" would actually be the third
play
> > > for which Shakespeare "invented" the plot. He was, nevertheless,
like
> > > Autolycus, a snapper-up of other people's trifles.
> >
> > That's interesting ....since Isaac Asimov in his exhaustive "Guide to
> > Shakespeare" says:
> >
> > "What's more, The Tempest is Shakespeare's complete creation too, for
it is
> > the one play in which he apparently made up his own plot." Maybe he's
> > thinking that since his "Midsummer Night's Dream" is set upon the
frame of an
> > impending wedding --that of Thesus and Hippolyta and that these
characters are
> > taken from Greek myths -- they are not invented by Shakespeare, as are
Miranda
> > or Prospero, etc.
> >
> > Also, in "Love's Labor Lost" ...the characters spring from real people
who
> > existed at the time...so maybe Asimov cannot count them as "invented"
by the
> > "bard."
>
> Writers (including myself) get things wrong all the time--though
> scholars (including myself) do their best not to make mistakes.
>
> Incidentally, "The Tempest" does have sources--materials Shakespeare
> borrowed, and remember too there are mythological figures in the play
> (as there are in Midsummer). BTW, "The Shakespeare Diaries" hint that
> by choosing the name Prospero, Shakespeare was getting back at Ben
> Jonson (the problematic reference to the "Bermoothes" falls into the
> same category).
> JPW
> http://www.jpwearing.com
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