# How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest

Author: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936; Thorndike, Ashley Horace, 1871-1933 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32991

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=How+Shakspere+Came+to+Write+the+Tempest+Kipling&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Mr. Kipling's brilliant reconstruction of the genesis of the 'Tempest' may remind us how often that play has excited the creative fancy of its readers. It has given rise to many imitations, adaptations, and sequels. Fletcher copied its storm, its desert island, and its woman who had never seen a man. Suckling borrowed its spirits. Davenant and Dryden added a man who had never seen a woman, a husband for Sycorax, and a sister for Caliban. Mr. Percy Mackaye has used its scene, mythology, and persons for his tercentenary Shaksperian Masque. Its suggestiveness has extended beyond the drama, and aroused moral allegories and disquisitions. Caliban has been elaborated as the Missing Link, and in...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-shakspere-came-to-write-the-tempest-32991/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-shakspere-came-to-write-the-tempest-32991/chapters/2/index.md)