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Prospero's Books is a 1991 British avant-garde film adaptation of William Shakespeare 's The Tempest, written and directed by Peter Greenaway. Sir John Gielgud plays Prospero, the protagonist who provides the off-screen narration and the voices to the other story characters.
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Prospero, once duke of Milan, has been tossed by a storm onto a lost island, along with his daughter, Miranda, various crew members and such resident sprites and monsters as Ariel and Caliban. But he has managed to save his books from the tempest - books he prizes more than his dukedom - and Greenaway wonders about that water-soaked library.
Aug 30, 1991 · Prospero's Books: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc, Erland Josephson. The magician Prospero attempts to stop his daughter's affair with an enemy.
Prospero's Books. Prospero is a magician who gets to keep only a small fragment of his enormous library when he is exiled with his daughter to an enchanted island. As Prospero describes the books he loves, visions unfold of florid calligraphies, astonishing diagrams, and extravagant paintings.
62% Tomatometer 26 Reviews. 83% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings. Shakespeare's exiled duke (John Gielgud) tells his tale in calligraphy in this version of "The Tempest." Content collapsed. Watch on...
Prospero is a magician who gets to keep only a small fragment of his enormous library when he is exiled with his daughter to an enchanted island. As Prospero describes the books he loves, visions unfold of florid calligraphies, astonishing diagrams, and extravagant paintings.
Jan 1, 1991 · With more visual stimulation than a dozen normal films, Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books is an intellectually and erotically rampaging meditation on the arrogance and...
Overview. An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Prospero is a magician who gets to keep only a small fragment of his enormous library when he is exiled with his daughter to an enchanted island. As Prospero describes the books he loves, visions begin to unfold. However, problems arise when Prospero’s daughter falls in love with the wrong man.
