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Time to check out the side plots in The Tempest , because what play is complete without a couple of buffoons drinking their way across an island?
Transcript
- 00:00
Thhakespeare's plays the tempest side
- 00:08
plot a'la Shmoop ...Which characters want to usurp power
- 00:15
from prospero Meanwhile there's another uprising going on Right So
- 00:20
this this place is definitely all about kind of power
- 00:22
relationships who's in charge of whom prospero who's just orchestrated [Prospero writing a deal]
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- 00:25
this weird deal where he's like who's forced ferdinand's kind
- 00:29
ofwork for his daughter's hand is also responsible of course
- 00:32
for keeping caliban in captivity And caliban is not a [Caliban stuck inside a cage]
- 00:35
means straight So basically caliban comes into contact with these
- 00:38
two like narrow do wells right trinculo and stefano who
- 00:43
have also been shipwrecked and they want to usurp not
- 00:46
Alonso Do you really care about the prospero the
- 00:49
kind of the fact of king of the island right
- 00:54
who were trinculo and stephano And what are they plotting [Question appears]
- 00:57
with taliban So tricky on stefano are just basically drunkards
- 01:02
the king's butler and his court jester and caliban meets [Woman discussing Trinculo]
- 01:06
them And because he doesn't know any better is incredibly
- 01:09
impressed by them thinks that they're really cool and really
- 01:12
strong and he recruits them toe help him murder prospero [Trinculo and stephano recruited by Caliban]
- 01:17
because that's what he hey always wanted not knowing basically
- 01:21
that he is hiring people who are even less equipped
- 01:24
to do the deed That he is himself total bumbling
- 01:27
idiots And so you just have the three of them
- 01:30
kind of wandered around the island scheming but not really
- 01:34
having the resources to get it done How does the [Trio stood by giant mouse trap]
- 01:38
trio's plan get foiled the three of them and just
- 01:42
kind of stuck Ariel has learned them to this like
- 01:46
gross mucky pool and they can't get out of it
- 01:49
And then prospero now that he has a little bit [Prospero surrounded by clocks]
- 01:51
more time on his hands sets some howling and so
- 01:56
they're caught The ski moves over and caliban and pretty
- 01:59
killer says that he's repented and will work really hard they're caught The ski moves over and caliban and pretty
- 01:59
killer says that he's repented and will work really hard
- 02:04
to be a prospero's good graces again so it's a [Caliban mowing lawn]
- 02:06
resolution of sorts but the big resolution is still to
- 02:10
come when all of the italians are reunited on the
- 02:14
island So that's what that's what we're building up to [Italians reunited on island]
- 02:21
Which characters want to usurp power from prospero Who were
- 02:25
trinculo and stephano And what are they plotting with taliban
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