...615. 12. Prospero, in Shakespeare's The Tempest, commands awesome and fantastic powers for a time: ... I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout...

...of his theatrical magic in a list that invokes with eerie memories the entire Shakespearean oeuvre: I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout...

...and groves' and 'you demi-puppets whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms', Prospero claims to have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout...

...printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets . . . . . . And you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms,...hear the solemn curfew, by whose aid — Weak masters though ye be — I have bedimmed The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the...

...create such insubstantial art; the unnatural art which has been in 'artificial strife' with nature, has 'bedimm'd / The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, / And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault / Set roaring war' (Vi.33-57). It is the inverse of Orpheus' art redeeming nature. Prospero...

...landing. He uses his hands. He is weaving the weather. He brings thunder and lightning into Joss's room. 'The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout...

...mushrooms." At the same time he demonizes them. He states that by their aid — Weak masters though ye be — I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd...the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout...

...kinds of departures from the norm are marked; - = unstressed, / = stressed, \ = secondary stress): I have bedimm'd / / The noontide sun, call'd forth...mutinous winds, / . And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault / / . I Set roaring war; to the dread rat | tling thunder \ / Have I given fire, and rifted...

...the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back; you demi-puppets, that By moonshine do the sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and...hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have bedimmed The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green...

...when he comes back; you demi-puppets that by moonshine do thè green sour ringlets make, whereof thè ewe not bites; and you whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice to hear thè solemn curfew; by whose aid - 40 weak masters though ye be - 1 have bedimm'd thè noontide sun,...