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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.
- £1.6 million (UK/US)
- Masato Hara, Kees Kasander, Katsufumi Nakamura, Yoshinobu Namano, Denis Wigman, Roland Wigman
- £1,500,000 or £2.4 million
- Michael Nyman
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.
- (6.6K)
- Drama, Fantasy
- Peter Greenaway
- 1991-08-30
Apr 24, 2014 · The Tempest casts strange spells at the cinema | Books | The Guardian. Inexplicable fascination …. John Gielgud in Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books (1991). Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd ...
Greenaway begins with a crucial piece of information from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, that final and most symmetrically perfect of the playwright’s works. 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.
There is no middle ground for viewers of Peter Greenaway's work, but for his fans, Prospero's Books is reliably daring. Shakespeare's exiled duke (John Gielgud) tells his tale in calligraphy...
