FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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The Tempest
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Otello
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King Lear
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Macbeth
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Tempest ends with a general sense of resolution and hope. After four acts in which Prospero uses magic to split up, disorient, and psychologically torture his enemies, in the final act he lures everyone to the same spot on the island and forgives Alonso and Antonio for their betrayal twelve years prior.
Detailed explanation-3: -What is Shakespeare’s last play? His last play is probably The Two Noble Kinsmen, which Shakespeare co-wrote with John Fletcher around 1613.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sailors come to announce that the ship is safe. Prospero fulfils his promise and frees Ariel while Caliban and the drunken servants are rebuked. The play ends as all go to celebrate their reunions, and Prospero asks the audience to release him from the play.
Detailed explanation-5: -Prospero concludes with a highly dramatic evocation of the end of his magic: I’ll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I’ll drown my book.