Every Good Morning

The Tempest is about the motivations for vengeance and murder, and what one might do with the power of a god. It shows the audience the arbitrary bloom of one love match, but also has something to say about earned and unearned forgiveness and the residue of viciousness. Prospero, with his power to summon storms and spirits, create hallucinations, bestow sleep, hold others to his will, is a very human god. His […]

One way that genius with language works means coming up with ways of seeing that no one has thought of and making a metaphor* as a vehicle of that new vision. Shakespeare does this effortlessly, or so it seems in my experience. What does effortless imply? I think it means that for Shakespeare these images surfaced quickly from the flow of thought involved in his writing process. Maybe he asked […]