The Tempest

William Shakespeare · c. 1611 CE · Play · English · Renaissance

A deposed duke and his daughter have lived twelve years on an island with a spirit he freed and a servant he took the place from. When the ship carrying his usurping brother passes close, he raises a storm, strands the court among the rocks, and sets his spirits to work on them. Shakespeare's last sole-authored play, and his most explicit reckoning with mastery, servitude and the price of an enchanted island.

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Lineage

• alludes to ↑ Metamorphoses
  Ovid · 8 CE · Poem
• influenced by ↑ The Aeneid
  Virgil · 19 BCE · Poem
• ↓ Brave New World
  Aldous Huxley · 1932 CE · Novel — takes its title from this
• ↓ Sabbath's Theater
  Philip Roth · 1995 CE · Novel — alludes to this
• ↓ A Tempest
  Aimé Césaire · 1969 CE · Play — reworks this
• ↓ Caliban upon Setebos
  Robert Browning · 1864 CE · Poem — reworks this
• ↓ Endgame
  Samuel Beckett · 1957 CE · Play — alludes to this

Attributes

Closest analogues

• Anna Christie
  Eugene O'Neill · 1921 CE · Play

  38% · 8 shared
  PlayTragicomedyRedemptionFreedom vs FateSeparation and ReunionFall–Rise (Man in a Hole)The StormThe Sea
• Heroes and Villains
  Angela Carter · 1969 CE · Novel

  38% · 7 shared
  Power & CorruptionFreedom vs FateNature vs CivilizationMagicianThe SeaMythicEnglish
• Faust, Part Two
  Goethe · 1832 CE · Play

  35% · 9 shared
  PlayFantasyPower & CorruptionMagicianRuler / KingThe Seavs Supernaturalvs SelfMythic
• The Tale of Tsar Saltan
  Alexander Pushkin · 1832 CE · Poem

  35% · 8 shared
  FantasyRuler / KingShapeshifterSeparation and ReunionThe SeaThe Islandvs SupernaturalMythic
• Wild Seed
  Octavia E. Butler · 1980 CE · Novel

  35% · 7 shared
  FantasyPower & CorruptionFreedom vs FateShapeshifterThe Seavs SupernaturalMythic
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  C. S. Lewis · 1952 CE · Novel

  33% · 8 shared
  FantasyRedemptionRuler / KingThe Seavs Supernaturalvs SelfMythicEnglish