Mr. Kipling‟s brilliant reconstruction of the genesis of the "Tempest‟ may remind us how often that play has excited the creative fancy of its readers. It has given rise to many imitations, adaptations, and sequels. Fletcher copied its storm, its desert island, and its woman who had never seen a man. Suckling borrowed its spirits. Davenant and Dryden added a man who had never seen a woman, a husband for Sycorax, and a sister for Caliban. Mr. Percy Mackaye has used its scene, mythology, and persons for his ter ...
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Mr. Kipling‟s brilliant reconstruction of the genesis of the "Tempest‟ may remind us how often that play has excited the creative fancy of its readers. It has given rise to many imitations, adaptations, and sequels. Fletcher copied its storm, its desert island, and its woman who had never seen a man. Suckling borrowed its spirits. Davenant and Dryden added a man who had never seen a woman, a husband for Sycorax, and a sister for Caliban. Mr. Percy Mackaye has used its scene, mythology, and persons for his ter-centenary Shaksperian Masque. Its sugges-tiveness has extended beyond the drama, and aroused moral allegories and disquisi-tions. Caliban has been elaborated as the Missing Link, and in the philosophical drama of Renan as the spirit of Democracy, and in Browning‟s poem as a satire on the anthropomorphic conception of Deity.
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