The Tempest

Numbered Text

Click the link The Tempest Numbered Text Version 4 to view the numbered text.

To learn more about the numbering process and how to use the numbered text read the Introduction to Numbered First Folio Texts here.

Geometrical Play Figure

“…we are dealing at present with poetic time, which might have its own inner laws. Let us simply suppose then that the time-track of a play could be represented as a curve. We must ask next: what manner of curve?”

Excerpt from Finding and Constructing the ‘Figure’ for a Shakespeare Play read the complete article to identify and understand the construction of Play-Figures.