- Dear Jeff,
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- I'm currently directing Shakespeare's 'The Tempest',
and one of Prospero's lines struck me to the quick, as it were.
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- Listen to this: Act 5, Scene 1:
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- Prospero draws his magic circle and addresses his speech
to his spirits and power. He says, "You demi-puppets that/By moonshine
do the green sour ringlets make/Whereof the ewe not bites."
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- All my research r.e. this line concludes that 'fairies'
(intersting that he uses the term demi-puppets) used to dance around green
grassy places, and flatten the grass into little circles. The sheep and
cattle were terrified to graze upon this grass. Interesting?
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