The Tempest Act 1: Authority | Summary and Analysis of Shakespeare's Tempest

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This is part of a seven-episode series about William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest: The series discusses themes, characters, and symbolism, and analyzes the play act by act. This video is an introduction to act 1 of The Tempest. We will read this act through the theme of "authority"
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[@Unraveled]

Definitely going to watch the rest of this series, great work! 👍

[@shakespeareplaybyplay]

Thanks!

[@AppleOfNewton]

I was sick so I'm late here, although I was waiting for (as i always do once a play ends. And in meantime i re-watch the play series) for you to start this new play...❤❤❤

[@mrnobody-unowen]

Look, I gotta say, I'm 3 minutes in - you're mispronouncing Boatswain. It's more like "Bo'sun".

[@shakespeareplaybyplay]

Yeah I was afraid I'd mess that one up. So I shouldn't say the T at all?

[@mrnobody-unowen]

​@@shakespeareplaybyplay You can, but that's the more formal, less often used version - it's essentially how it's written, but not how it's pronounced. People almost always just shorten it to Bosun.

[@mrnobody-unowen]

A more precise way of transliterating it would be "bow-sun".