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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND
PICTURE CREDITS

Preparation of “
The Tempest
in Performance” was assisted by two generous grants: from the CAPITAL Centre (Creativity and Performance in Teaching and Learning) of the University of Warwick, for research in the RSC archive at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust; and from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a term’s research leave that enabled Jonathan Bate to work on “The Director’s Cut.”

Picture research by Helen Robson and Jan Sewell. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for assistance with picture research and reproduction fees.

Images of RSC productions are supplied by the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, Stratford-upon-Avon. This library, maintained by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, holds the most important collection of Shakespeare material in the UK, including the Royal Shakespeare Company’s official archives. It is open to the public free of charge.

For more information see
www.shakespeare.org.uk
.

1.
Frank Benson as Caliban (1897). Reproduced by permission of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

2.
Alan Badel as Ariel (1951). Angus McBean © Royal Shakespeare Company.

3.
Directed by Ron Daniels (1982). Joe Cocks Studio Collection © Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

4.
Directed by Sam Mendes (1993). Malcolm Davies © Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

5.
Directed by Peter Brook (1957). Angus McBean © Royal Shakespeare Company.

6.
Directed by Michael Boyd (2002). Manuel Harlan © Royal Shakespeare Company.

7.
Directed by Rupert Goold (2006). Manuel Harlan © Royal Shakespeare Company.

8.
Bakary Sangaré as Ariel in
La Tempête
. Directed by Peter Brook (1990) © Gilles Abegg.

9.
Reconstructed Elizabethan Playhouse © Charcoalblue.

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Act 1 Scene 1

1.1
Location: a ship at sea

1.1
Boatswain
ship’s chief officer

2
cheer
news/encouragement

3
Good
good fellow/good, you’re there

3
yarely
swiftly

4
Bestir
be active

5
hearts
hearties

5
Cheerly
heartily, willingly

5
Yare
quick

6
Take … topsail
reducing the sail lessens the force of the wind pushing the ship toward land

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