ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Tempest, drama in five acts by William Shakespeare, first written and performed about 1611 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from an edited transcript, by Ralph Crane (scrivener of the King’s Men), of the author’s papers after they had been annotated for production.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Tempest, drama in five acts by William Shakespeare, first written and performed about 1611 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from an edited transcript, by Ralph Crane (scrivener of the King’s Men), of the author’s papers after they had been annotated for production.

Detailed explanation-3: -All this makes late 1610 or early 1611 as the likeliest time in which Shakespeare wrote The Tempest. This is the same time at which The Winter’s Tale was written.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is thought to have been inspired by Shakespeare’s reading of a real-life event described by a voyager: On July 24, 1609 a fleet of nine English vessels was nearing the end of a supply voyage to the new colony of the Bermudas when it ran into “a cruel tempest, ” presumably a hurricane.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Tempest must be Shakespeare’s last play, because it depicts his own renunciation of the art of theatre in the guise of Prospero; because Prospero is Shakespeare, The Tempest must be Shakespeare’s last play.