For the next post in "The Tempest 400th Anniversary" celebration series, Jo Wilding writes an account about the celebrated return of the Royal Shakespeare Company on the night the Royal Shakespeare Theatre reopened their doors.
In our next post in "The Tempest 400th Anniversary" celebration series, Mareike talks about Ralph Koltai and the way he transformed the world of stage design.
For another post in our 400th anniversary of "The Tempest" celebration series, Jo takes us through the various illustrations over the years inspired by Shakespeare's magical play.
Though "The Tempest" is known for having little in the way of foundation in historical narratives, one text it does find kinship with is Michael Lord of Montaigne's essay "Des Cannibales".
What would the special effects of "The Tempest" have looked like on stage in the 17th and 19th centuries? Jo recounts the details of Charles Kean's production in 1857 at the Princess's Theatre.
Shakespeare certainly took inspiration from the stories he would have heard in his childhood when writing up his plays - and ghost stories weren't exempt from his extractions.
Sylvia Morris highlights the supernatural in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and draws up comparisons between a passage in the play and one in Ovid's "Metamorphoses".