Nifty site

If you find yourself bored and wanting something to read, then check this site out. It's full of interesting bits of trivia on The Tempest.

Tristan

Thou creeping, open arsed giglet!

If that sounded nifty to you, then you need to take a look at the Shakespearean Insult Generator. It takes words or phrases from Elizabethan English and combines them randomly and the end result is an extremely amusing insult! It's a great way to liven up a conversation or to vex your garden variety idiot. If you didn't click on the above link to take a gander, try here and enjoy!

Tristan

*Edit: I forgot to post another interesting site which does the same thing plus it occasionally pulls an insult directly from a miscellaneous play and displays it. You can find this site here.

The Rocky Horror Tempest Show

Hello all, Tristan here to bring you a moderately nifty internet find

I was browsing through google videos when I came across this interesting take on the Tempest



*Warning: The acting isn't great. I don't think it was meant to be, it was meant to combine a great cult movie with a literary classic (for a class or for fun, I'm not so sure, I just found the video and thought it "neat"). So don't even try to take this video seriously.

Yet another Interesting Quote for this Moment

It is I, Tristan, here with yet another installment in this fine series of quotes from a literary master.

This quote comes from the Tempest and is straight from the monster himself, Caliban

All the infections that the sun sucks up

From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him

By inch-mail a disease! his spirits hear me,

And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch,

Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i' the mire,

Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark

Out of my way, unless he bid 'em: but

For every trifle are they set upon me;

Sometimes like apes, that mow and chatter at me,

And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which

Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount

Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I

All wound with adders, who with cloven tongues

Do hiss me into madness.

~Caliban, The Tempest Act II scene ii

I chose this particular quote because of the wonderful language used by this character. He is supposedly inferior but he speaks with such eloquence and style that one must admit that, though simple, this creature has quite the mind in his head. Even through a bout of cursing another man he speaks such gorgeous, imaginative lines.