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:crash: Greetings to any Shakespeare scholars out there:
Is there a name for the island where Prospero and daughter are introduced?
As far as I know WS is not known to have ben a traveller. How did he make up the island image? Is it based on a report of somebody else's travels? Who was it?
Has any one tried to make a map of the island as it might have been visualized by WS? Can such a map be seen on the Internet?
Thanks if you have an answer.
There was no name for the island (but it is often reffered to Prosperos "cell")...and as far as i know...WS did not make a map which is avaliable on the internet....and the island is simply a object of his imagination....he did after all conjur up some of the most amazing plays in the world...it was a fragment of WS imagination .....just as all the other locations WS has created....in his other plays
Isle of Man maybe. Pg. 208 of "Who Wrote Shakespeare?" by John Michell shows a picture and says, "A view across the Calf towards the main island of Man. As a former hermitage surrounded by dangerous seas, the Calf of Man is very like Shakespeare's description of Prospero's island."
Thanks very much to both of you for your ideas.
When I get some time I may try to draw a map of the mythical/imaginary island for myself.
The Introduction to the play in Complete Works... ed. by W. G. Clarke and Aldis Wright, p. 971 has the following:Quote:
Originally Posted by byquist
A few months before the play was probably written, had appeared an account of the wreck of a ship "in a tempest off the Bermudas.. written by Sylvester Jourdan. Shakespeare ( Act I., Scene II., L. 229) makes mention of "the still-vexed Bermoothes;...".
If the story of the Bermudas ship wreck was part of the inspiration, the cimate to be imagined would be tropical, unlike in the Isle of Man.