How you explore The Tempest on Literah
The cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words — each one a card in a feed you scroll on your phone. One at a time, at your pace, in any order you like.
- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 21 characters, 11 places, 16 objects and 11 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 38 passages of The Tempest sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as William Shakespeare wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on William Shakespeare instead.
The Tempest feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of The Tempest
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- The Staged Tempest
- Prospero’s History Revealed
- Ariel and Caliban’s Bondage
- Love Tested by Labor
- The Old Crime Repeats
- Caliban’s New Masters
- A Plot Against Prospero
- The Harpy’s Judgment
- The Masque and Its Dissolution
- Virtue Over Vengeance
The author's pen in The Tempest
The passages themselves, William Shakespeare's own words, as Literah maps it.
- What Cares These Roarersch. 1
- All Lost To Prayersch. 1
- Miranda Pities the Shipwreckch. 2
- Prospero Tells Her Fartherch. 2
- Antonio Usurps Prospero’s Statech. 2
- Cast Off In Ruinch. 2
- Books Above My Dukedomch. 2
- Courting An Auspicious Starch. 2
- Ariel Fires the Shipch. 2
- Safe and Scatteredch. 2
- Ariel Demands Libertych. 2
- Ariel Freed From the Pinech. 2
- This Island's Minech. 2
- Learning to Cursech. 2
- Sea Change Into Treasurech. 2
- Prospero Calls Him Traitorch. 2
- Sorrow Weighed With Comfortch. 3
- What’s Past Is Prologuech. 3
- As Thou Gotst Milanch. 3
- Awake and Bewarech. 3
The characters of The Tempest
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Prosperomajor
- Mirandamajor
- Arielmajor
- Calibanmajor
- Alonsosupporting
- Ferdinandsupporting
- Antoniosupporting
- Sebastiansupporting
- Gonzalosupporting
- Stephanosupporting
- Trinculosupporting
- Sycoraxmentioned
- Boatswainminor
- Ship-Masterminor
- Marinersminor
- Adrianminor
The locations in The Tempest
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- The ship at seaship
- The islandisland
- Prospero's cellcell
- Milandukedom
- Napleskingdom
- Tuniscity
- The cloven pinetree
- Caliban's hard rockcave
- The banquet clearingclearing
- The masque space before Prospero's cellperformance space
- The line-grove near the cellgrove
The core concepts in The Tempest
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Freedom is pursued through new forms of bondage
- Power proves itself by surrendering the power to punish
- Artificial spectacles expose genuine truths
- Rescue and settlement become claims of ownership
- Apparent loss becomes transformation without ceasing to hurt
- Teaching gives language while making language an instrument of rule
- Unexposed ambition repeats the crime it has already committed
- Wonder opens the future while leaving the beholder exposed
- Forgiveness restores order without resolving every wrong
The objects of note in The Tempest
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- The tempest
- The king's ship
- Prospero's magic garment
- Prospero's books
- Prospero's staff
- The rotten boat of exile
- Gonzalo's provisions
- Ariel's invisible music
- Full fathom five
- Ferdinand's logs
- Stephano's bottle
- The vanishing banquet
- Ariel's harpy disguise
- The masque
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