...leave: Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint. * * * Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else...art to enchant; And my ending is despair Unless I be reliev'd by prayer, Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself and frees all faults. As you from...

...back to its European polity. Prospero petitions his audience to release its fictional spell upon him: Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. (^.329-31) Should Prospero be faulted or indulged? In accordance with good rhetorical practice, the...

...Tempest is severe and dark at center, but not so here. And Prospero's farewell to us is in despair: "Now I want / Spirits to enforce, art to enchant / And my ending is despair,..." It was Shakespeare's farewell to the stage, too. Prospero has forgiven his entrapped enemies, reclaimed...

...true pleasure of the audience serves as final arbiter of the fate of the drama in performance: "But release me from my bands/ With the help of your good hands" (9-10). The renegotiation of authority is effected through the interplay between what theatrical signs...

...Since I have my Dukedom got, And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell, But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands. (3-10) Prospero represents himself here as trapped on "this bare island" through the "spell" of the...

...Since I have my dukedom got And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island of your spell, But release me from my bands With the help of your good...fill or else my project fails, Which was to please. (Epilogue, 4-14) If all the world is a stage, the stage is also a world, and this world is not controlled...

...from the lyric, Ivanov could appropriate Prospero's wistful lament at the close of The Tempest: . . . release me from my bands With the help of your good...yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails . . . (Epilogue, 9-12) Epic, Myth, Allegory The symbolic power of Ivanov's lyrics was sometimes blunted...

...I have my dukedom got, 325 And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell, But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands. Gentle breath of yours my sails 330 Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to...

...the darkest moral and religious questions raised by the play. The final lines are darkly pertinent: Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant, And my ending is despair, Unless I be reliev'd by prayer, Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from...

...a historicizing, rather than a historical, reading of the Odyssey.44 A Brief Overview Gentle hreath of yours my sails must fill, or else my project fails, which was to please. Shakespeare, The Tempest Vi Ships and overseas travel play a significant role in hoth the Odyssey's...