| What productions used to depict Caliban as a monster? | Victorian |
| Who directed the production when Ariel spit in Prospero’s face at the end? | Sam Mendes |
| What was unique about Sam Mendes’ production? | Ariel spit in Prospero’s face |
| When was Sam Mendes’ production in which Ariel spit in Prospero’s face? | 1993 |
| Which production involved dramatic and effective stage lights and effects? | RSC 2016 |
| Which production was more simplistic and used the original Shakespearian instruments and props? | Globe production 2013 |
| What was the Tempest written to be performed for? | Celebrating the marriage of James I’s daughter, Elizabeth |
| When was the Tempest performed at court for James I’s daughter’s wedding celebrations? | 1613 |
| In what year did James I’s son die? | 1612 |
| Why was James I’s court so divided? | Favoured the Scottish |
| When was the shipwreck off Bermuda which affected the colonists of Jamestown and inspired this play? | 1610 |
| Where was the shipwreck which affected the colonists of Jamestown and inspired this play? | Bermuda |
| What group were affected by the shipwreck off Bermuda and inspired this play? | Colonists of Jamestown |
| What racial belief still existed which may have influenced Shakespeare’s depiction of Caliban? | Hierarchy of races |
| What book did James I write, which asserted his belief in the supernatural and triggered the infamous witch hunts? | Daemonologie |
| What two things were closely associated with each other under James I? | Science and Magic |
| What advisor under Elizabeth I was accused of being a conjurer under James I? | John Dee |
| What was John Dee accused of being under James I? | Conjurer |
| Who had John Dee previously been? | Advisor to Elizabeth I |
| Who was John Dee seen as being a model for? | Prospero |
| Who had John Dee been identified as before being accused of being a conjurer? | Scientist |
| What questions did both John Dee and Prospero raise? | Abuse of magical power |
| What name was Prospero called due to his magical studies? | Magus |
| What was the name for magic used for dark purposes which the Church was suspicious of? | Goety |
| What type of magic does Prospero demonstrate through his wish to ‘civilise’ Caliban? | Good magic |
| What type of magic does Prospero demonstrate through his creation of the storm? | Goety |
| What type of magic does Prospero demonstrate through putting Miranda to sleep when he doesn’t want her to hear something? | Goety |
| How was the sound of thunder created? | Rolling a metal ball outside the stage |
| Where were the poorer members of the audience in the Globe Theatre? | The pits |
| Where were the richer members of the audience in the Globe Theatre? | Top tier |
| During which time were many of Shakespeare’s plays adapted, such as through introducing the character of Sycorax? | Victorian |
| What is the term for Prospero’s sudden intervention at the end of Act 4, scene 1? | Deus ex Machina |
| What showed women’s abilities to maintain control without marriage? | Elizabeth I |
| What were more women not doing at this time? | Marrying |
| What minority movement allowed women to have more control through remaining celibate? | Puritan |
| How did the minority Puritan movement give some women more control? | Remain celibate |
| How was divine order ranked? | Spirituality |
| What had Shakespeare’s father been? | A yeoman |
| What had Shakespeare achieved which most were unable to in Jacobean society? | Social mobility |
| Who wrote ‘On Cannibals’ which asserted that humanity’s golden age existed during cannibalism when people lived as nature intended? | Montaigne |
| What did Montaigne write, which asserted that cannibalism was humanity’s ‘golden age’? | On Cannibals |
| What was suggested in Montaigne’s ‘On Cannibals’? | Cannibalism was humanity’s golden age |
| Which characters did Shakespeare characterise to go against Montaigne’s views on natural life equating with spiritual life? | Caliban and Ariel |
| Why did Shakespeare’s depiction of Caliban and Ariel go against Montaigne’s views? | Dependent on Prospero |
| Which character’s name may have stemmed from ‘cannibal’ to imply a representation of Montaigne’s natural man? | Caliban |
| What did Righter say about the Tempest? | “Even Prospero, its most dominant and fully displayed figure, is curiously opaque” |
| Which critic said “even Prospero, its most dominant and fully displayed figure, is curiously opaque”? | Righter |
| What did Lovell say about the Tempest? | “succession of illusions” |
| Which critic wrote about a “succession of illusions”? | Lovell |
| What did Norbrook say about the Tempest? | “Throughout ‘The Tempest’… the sea is associated with forces of destruction and of renewal beyond the limits of the conscious mind” |
| Which critic said “throughout ‘The Tempest’… the sea is associated with forces of destruction and of renewal beyond the limits of the conscious mind”? | Norbrook |
| What did Bate say about the Tempest? | “The dominant theme in twentieth century productions was the exploration of the play as a colonial experience” |
| Which critic said “the dominant theme in twentieth century productions was the exploration of the play as a colonial experience”? | Bate |
| What were masques? | Private performances commissioned for the monarch |
| What type of performance were masques typically? | A celebration |
| What other of Shakespeare’s plays did he make use of ‘magic music’? | A midsummer night’s dream |
| What was deployed in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’? | Magic music |
| What was Shakespeare’s acting company called before he became the royal playwright? | Lord Chamberlain’s Men |
| What was Lord Chamberlain’s Men? | Shakespeare’s acting company |
| What was Shakespeare’s acting company renamed after he became the royal playwright? | The King’s Men |
| What was The King’s Men? | Shakespeare’s acting company |
| What is significant for Shakespeare about ‘The Tempest’? | Last play solely attributed to him |
The Tempest
July 9, 2019