How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest

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The title page gives the work as How Shakspere Came to Write the ‘Tempest’, by Rudyard Kipling, with an introduction by Ashley H. Thorndike. The text asks how Shakspere discovered this enchanted island and from what materials he created the baseless fabric of this vision. The text says Caliban has been elaborated as the Missing Link, and in the philosophical drama of Renan as the spirit of Democracy, and in Browning’s poem as a satire on the anthropomorphic conception of Deity.

The text says the ‘Tempest’ has always been a spectacular play on the stage. The text says the masque proper is used to celebrate the betrothal in the fourth act. The text mentions the Armada, 1588, and asks where Shakspere was and what he was doing, quoting "There was a hot press for men to man the fleet."

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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and Nobel laureate, celebrated for The Jungle Book and his tales and poems of British India. He was also an accomplished writer of ghost and horror stories.