Shakespearean
comedy is highly noticeable within Shakespeare’s The Tempest. In any of Shakespeare’s comedies, there must be a
comic solution by the end of the play, which means that there must be a
positive conclusion along with the disappearance of the pretenses and disguises
that guided the play. In The Tempest,
the protagonist, Prospero, destroys his magic staff and results in him wiping
away the use of magic he used throughout the play. In this case, Prospero comes
to his senses in order to retain his lost dukedom in which he originally lost
in the beginning of the play for concentrating more on magic rather than his
job.
Shakespeare
introduces a comic situation near the end of the play in which he defines Shakespearean
comedy to its fulfillment. As King Alonso and his party are growing weary from
searching for Ferdinand, they begin to visualize a banquet and thus become bewildered
upon the perplexities and the unusual amounts of food that are presented to
them. At this point, Shakespeare demonstrates a scene where people are charmed
in a way that makes them visualize the banquet and makes the world convert into
a makeshift dream. Both these examples exemplify Shakespeare’s main idea in
constructing multiple plays, including The
Tempest, to incorporate Shakespearean comedy.
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