The Tempest script is very long, so we have separated the play into it’s original Acts and Scenes. Some stage directions can be a little confusing, so have a read of our understanding Shakespeare’s stage directions article. Stage directions are instructions and direction to the actors, and not spoken lines. Our article on Shakespeare & early modern English, or our Shakespeare dictionary, will help you to understand the language as you read through The Tempest script.Īnother thing to bear in mind as you read The Tempest text are Shakespeare’s stage directions, which are italicised. ![]() The region whither it transports us is the enchanted land where the sentence of damnation is absolved by clemency, and where reconciliation is ensured by amnesty to the fratricide. It is the expiation of the primordial crime. The language used in Shakespeare’s day is slightly different to today’s modern English, which is reflected in the text. The Tempest is the supreme denouement, dreamed by Shakespeare, for the bloody drama of Genesis. This page contains links to the free original The Tempest script by Shakespeare. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. ![]()
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