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| Illustration for "The Tempest" by Maurice Sendak featured on an audio CD by HarperCollins. Maurice Sendak is the author-illustrator of "Where the Wild Things Are" |
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Images of The Tempest
Soon we will be studying Shakespeare's play The Tempest. A tempest is a really big storm or crazy commotion like a storm. Indeed this play starts with a storm and a shipwreck. It is full of crazy mixups and comical misteps. It is populated with dukes, princes and princesses, brute savages, and fairies. There are love stories and murder plots, and plenty of magical events.
Before we read the play take a glimpse at some art and photography inspired by Shakespeare's comedy. Copy and paste some images from Web sources into an Word document. You can make it like a scrapbook with a couple of pictures and captions on each page.
Check out Shakespeare Illustrated.
Browse image search engines using words like:
"the tempest" shakespeare
and art pictures photo illustration film
Characters to watch out for:
Prospero, Miranda, Caliban, Ariel
Trinculo, Ferdinand, Antonio, Alonso,
Sebastian, Gonzalo
HERE' S WHAT TO DO:
1. Browse through images and find ones that interest you most.
2. Collect some fine art images as well as photographs from productions that show interesting scenes.
3. Add captions (of the information provided from your sources, like the artist who made the painting, the theater group and what the scene is showing).
4. When you have a page or two of images, print these.
5. Write your name on the back of your pages.
6. We will post these in the room and watch for when we come to parts of the play that inspired the scenes in the art and photos.
7. If you have color pages, when you are all done, ask for permission to print in color.
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