Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 41 IS - no. 2 T2 - Literature/Film Quarterly SP - 92-101 ID - bbbc454 T1 - "'Rounded with a sleep': Prospero's Dream in Derek Jarman's The Tempest" AU - Davis, Hugh H PY - 2013 DA - 2026 KW - Prospero KW - dream KW - costume LA - English AB - Asserts that Derek Jarman's Tempest (q.v.) employs several elements of the mise-en-scène (costumes, lighting, setting, and casting) to suggest that the entire action is the stuff of Prospero's dreams, revealing that he is a subtly manipulative figure who is unable to relinquish his power, even in his dream. Concludes that the film ultimately "marries two conceptions of the text--that Prospero might be both forgiving and self-serving--through the use of the inventive dream framework." ER -