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The Tempest - Shakespeare - When staging The Tempest, what aspects of humour would you draw out from Act Two Scene Two. Focus on: the scene as a piece of drama and the effects it would have on the audience
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The Tempest - Shakespeare Coursework When staging The Tempest, what aspects of humour would you draw out from Act Two Scene Two. Focus on: the scene as a piece of drama and the effects it would have on the audience Act Two Scene Two is a comic sub plot because of the characters behaviours and actions. It also highlights some of the main themes of the central plot. Trinculo is a jester, a fool and one of the main characters, his job is to make people laugh. Stephano is the second character I am going to be focusing on. He's a drunken butler and because of his drunken actions, he's funny. Caliban adds humour to the play because of what he's thinking and doing. The play is based around colonialism, oppression, usurpation, masters, servants and magic. It was written by the famous William Shakespeare during the Elizabethan era. In the Elizabethan age when the Tempest...
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