Sentence examples for tempest as from inspiring English sources

Among the productions are two plays by Shakespeare ("The Taming of the Shrew" and "The Tempest"), as well as Tennessee Williams's "Glass Menagerie" and Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men".

The novelists include Howard Jacobson, who has done "The Merchant of Venice" (as "Shylock Is My Name"); Anne Tyler, who's done "The Taming of the Shrew" (as "Vinegar Girl"); and now Margaret Atwood, doing "The Tempest" (as "Hag-Seed").

Nunn supervised a string of hits as resident artistic director at the Haymarket; Flare Path was followed by Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and then came Ralph Fiennes as a beautifully spoken middle-aged and conciliatory Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest as well as Robert Lindsay and Joanna Lumley in James Goldman's The Lion in Winter.

While their opera on The Tempest, as well as The Fairies (1755), where the Prologue jokingly attributes authorship to a "Signor Shakespearelli," were poorly received, Garrick's Tempest book was successfully revived in 1777 with music by the remarkable Thomas Linley (1756 78).

He was the purported inspiration for Shakespeare's magician Prospero in The Tempest as well as Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, who sold his soul to the Devil.

In his final period, Shakespeare turned to romance or tragicomedy and completed three more major plays: Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, as well as the collaboration, Pericles, Prince of Tyre.

The other big weekend event happened without much of a tempest at all, as Woods won the Bridgestone Open by seven shots.

Cassini is scheduled for another flyby in late August that could reveal whether clouds are building for some summer tempests, as they predict.

"Tempest" isn't as revelatory as "Love and Theft," from 2001, or "Modern Times," from 2006, the benchmarks of Dylan's late period.

Don't expect music, however; Tempest is as comfortable working as a poet, a playwright and a prose writer as she is a rapper, and these nights will be dedicated to the written word.

Billy the boy, cast as the ungendered sprite Ariel in "The Tempest," returns as a man to direct "Romeo and Juliet" — an unswervingly heterosexual play, except of course that in Shakespeare's day Juliet would have been played by a boy.