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SHAKESPEARE'S STORMS

It's not just The Tempest that makes use of a raging storm to further Shakespeare's plots. See if you can identify the play from the stormy quotes!

(image: Miranda by John William Waterhouse, 1915. Source: Wikipedia)

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I had a sister, Whom the blind waves and surges have devour'd.

A) The Tempest

C) Twelfth Night

D) The Comedy of Errors

B) Pericles

That's right! It's from Act V, Sc. 1.

Viola and her brother Sebastian are separated when a storm wrecks their ship. Each thinks the other drowned, leading to mistaken identities and warm reunions.

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It's from Twelfth Night (Act V, Sc. 1)

Viola and her brother Sebastian are separated when a storm wrecks their ship. Each thinks the other drowned, leading to mistaken identities and warm reunions.

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The sailors sought for safety by our boat, And left the ship, then sinking-ripe, to us: My wife, more careful for the latter-born, Had fasten'd him unto a small spare mast, Such as seafaring men provide for storms.

A) Pericles

C) Twelfth Night

D) King Lear

B) The Comedy of Errors

That's correct. It's from Act 1, Sc. 1.

The hijinks of The Comedy of Errors begin when the main characters are small children, separated when a storm wrecks their boat and splits up their guardians.

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It's The Comedy of Errors (Act 1, Sc. 1).

The hijinks of The Comedy of Errors begin when the main characters are small children, separated when a storm wrecks their boat and splits up their guardians.

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Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!

C) The Tempest

A) Pericles

B) Macbeth

D) King Lear

You got it! It's from Act 3, Sc. 2.

King Lear leaves his daughters' homes in fury and finds himself at the mercy of a raging storm, without shelter. The storm outside echoes his own turmoil, as he says later: "the tempest in my mind / Doth from my senses take all feeling else / Save what beats there."

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It was King Lear (Act 3, Sc. 2).

King Lear leaves his daughters' homes in fury and finds himself at the mercy of a raging storm, without shelter. The storm outside echoes his own turmoil, as he says later: "the tempest in my mind / Doth from my senses take all feeling else / Save what beats there."

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...the grisly north Disgorges such a tempest forth, That, as a duck for life that dives, So up and down the poor ship drives...

A) The Tempest

C) Othello

B) Pericles

D) Macbeth

That's right. It's from Act 3, Sc. 1.

Like the more well-known Twelfth Night, The Tempest, and The Comedy of Errors, the less-performed Pericles also hinges on a storm and shipwreck. This one, midway through the play, separates Pericles from his wife and his newborn daughter.

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It's from Pericles (Act 3, Sc. 1).

Like the more well-known Twelfth Night, The Tempest, and The Comedy of Errors, the less-performed Pericles also hinges on a storm and shipwreck. This one, midway through the play, separates Pericles from his wife and his newborn daughter.

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The night has been unruly. Where we lay,Our chimneys were blown down...Some say the Earth Was feverous and did shake.

C) The Tempest

A) Macbeth

B) Othello

D) Richard III

You're correct. It's from Act 2, Sc. 3.

Though we don't see the storm in Macbeth, we're told about it right before the body of the murdered king is discovered. The disorder in the castle is mirrored by nature's own distress.

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It's from Macbeth (Act 2, Sc. 3).

Though we don't see the storm in Macbeth, we're told about it right before the body of the murdered king is discovered. The disorder in the castle is mirrored by nature's own distress.

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The End.

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