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Andrew Sachs, Christopher Guard, David Dixon, David Waller, Derek Godfrey ...( see more  see more... ) , John Nettleton , Michael Hordern , Nigel Hawthorne , Pippa Guard , Warren Clarke

Christopher Guard and Michael Hordern star in Shakespeare's otherworldly romance about deposed magic Duke Prospero, who inhabits an island with his daughter Miranda, their helper-sprite Ariel and the ...( read more  read more... )enslaved monster Caliban. A shipwreck brings newcomers to the island, and with them come complications and even danger. Miranda falls in love, Ariel foils two murder plots, Caliban gets drunk, and Prospero confronts the brother who betrayed him.

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Directed by: John Gorrie

Release Date: February 27, 1980

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DVD Release Date: November 9, 2004

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  • binky013
    January 18, 2009
    binky013
    I have never yet seen a truly great production of The Tempest on either stage or screen. Charlton Heston once expressed a wish to play Prospero; I wish he'd had a chance to fulfill that wish.

    This BBC production, like all their others, is at least all right, but the P

    ...( read more)rospero I envision, although he may have some age and wear on him, still burns with an inner intensity that will radiate forth in the famous, perhaps the most famous of all Shakespeare's speeches: The farewell to art:

    Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,

    And ye that on the sands with printless foot

    Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him

    When he comes back; you demi-puppets that

    By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,

    Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime

    Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice

    To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid,

    Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd

    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 oak

    With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory

    Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up

    The pine and cedar: graves at my command

    Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth

    By my so potent art. But this rough magic

    I here abjure, and, when I have required

    Some heavenly music, which even now I do,

    To work mine end upon their senses that

    This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,

    Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,

    And deeper than did ever plummet sound

    I'll drown my book.

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