27 Oct THE TEMPEST – Act One – Scene One
THE TEMPEST – Act One – Scene One
William Shakespeare
MASTER – Master of the Ship
BOATSWAIN – Servant of the Ship’s Master
ALONSO – King of Naples
ANTONIO – The King’s Brother
SEBASTIAN – The King’s Brother
GONZALO – The King’s Counsellor
On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.
Enter a Master and a Boatswain.
MASTER
Boatswain!
BOATSWAIN
Here, master: what cheer?
MASTER
Good, speak to the mariners: fall to’t, yarely[1],
or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.
Exit.
Enter Mariners[2].
BOATSWAIN
Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts!
Yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to the
master’s whistle. Blow, till thou burst thy wind,
if room enough!
Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others.
ALONSO
Good boatswain, have care. Where’s the master?
Play the men.
BOATSWAIN
I pray now, keep below.
ANTONIO
Where is the master, boatswain?
BOATSWAIN
Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your
cabins: you doassist the storm.
GONZALO
Nay, good, be patient.
BOATSWAIN
When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers
for the name of king? To cabin: silence! Trouble us not.
GONZALO
Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.
BOATSWAIN
None that I more love than myself. You are a
counsellor; if you can command these elements to
silence, and work the peace of the present, we will
not hand a rope more; the if you
cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make
yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of
the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out
of our way, I say.
Exit.
GONZALO
I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he
hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is
perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his
hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable,
for our own doth little advantage. If he be not
born to be hanged, our case is miserable.
Exit.
Re-enter Boatswain.
BOATSWAIN
Down with the topmast! Yare! Lower, lower! Bring
her to try with main-course.
A cry within.
A plague upon this howling! They are louder than
the weather or our office.
Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO.
Yet again! what do you here? Shall we give o’er
and drown? Have you a mind to sink?
SEBASTIAN
A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,
incharitable dog!
BOATSWAIN
Work you then.
ANTONIO
Hang, cur! Hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!
We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art.
GONZALO
I’ll warrant him for drowning; though the ship were
no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an
unstanched wench.
BOATSWAIN
Lay her a-hold, a-hold! Set her two courses off to
sea again; lay her off.
Enter Mariners, wet.
MARINERS
All lost! To prayers, to prayers! All lost!
BOATSWAIN
What, must our mouths be cold?
GONZALO
The king and prince at prayers! Let’s assist them,
For our case is as theirs.
SEBASTIAN
I’m out of patience.
ANTONIO
We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards:
This wide-chapp’d rascal–would thou mightst lie drowning
The washing of ten tides!
GONZALO
He’ll be hang’d yet,
Though every drop of water swear against it
And gape at widest to glut him.
A confused noise within: ‘Mercy on us!’– ‘We split, we split!’–‘Farewell, my wife and children!’– ‘Farewell, brother!’–‘We split, we split, we split!’
ANTONIO
Let’s all sink with the king.
SEBASTIAN
Let’s take leave of him.
Exit ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN.
GONZALO
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an
acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any
thing. The wills above be done! But I would fain
die a dry death.
Exit.
The Boatswain’s command that the Mariners “Blow, till thou burst thy wind” is meant to emphasize that their situation is
Select one:
a.
senseless
b.
gloomy
c.
loud
d.
dire
Clear my choice
The Boatswain suggests that he values his life more than he respects authority MOST CLEARLY in the line
Select one:
a.
“They are louder than the weather or our office.”
b.
“if you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long”
c.
“None that I more love than myself.”
d.
“What cares these roarers for the name of king?”
Gonzalo suggests that the Boatswain’s attitude will cause him to die by
Select one:
a.
fighting
b.
aging
c.
drowning
d.
hanging
In the line “They are louder than the weather or our office”, the Boatswain compares the noise of the storm to the
Select one:
a.
sails
b.
yelling
c.
whistling
d.
orders
The King’s attendants react to the Boatswain’s orders with
Select one:
a.
arrogance
b.
distrust
c.
indifference
d.
regard
The Boatswain figuratively expresses his realization of doom in the line
Select one:
a.
“Have you a mind to sink?”
b.
“Lay her a-hold, a-hold!”
c.
“A plague upon this howling!”
d.
“What, must our mouths be cold?”
Clear my choice
Gonzalo’s final lines convey his desire to
Select one:
a.
reach land
b.
die peacefully
c.
stop the storm
d.
control the sea
A synonym for FAIN in the line “But I would fain die a dry death” is
Select one:
a.
rather
b.
never
c.
fight
d.
forgive
Gonzalo’s final lines are an example of
Select one:
a.
a soliloquy
b.
a prologue
c.
an epilogue
d.
an aside
The stage directions – characters leaving and reentering, and voices yelling from off-stage – add to the scene’s feeling of
Select one:
a.
chaos
b.
suspense
c.
hopelssness
d.
animosity
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