Reading Shakespeare’s The Tempest–Preliminary activities
Please complete the following tasks:
- Watch the introduction to The Tempest by Iseult Gillespie embedded below
- Choose ONE of the following activities:
a. Determine a list of major themes of the play: Use an A.I. tool such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Edge, or Perplexity and enter the following prompt: Identify major themes of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Share one of these themes on this Google doc. (Try to list one that is not already on the document. If yours is there already, edit the entry–make it clearer, more specific, add detail.)
b. Determine a list of important historical contexts for the play: Use an A.I. tool such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Edge, or Perplexity and enter the following prompt: What are major historical contexts for Shakespeare’s The Tempest? Share one of these contexts on this Google doc. (Try to list one that is not already on the document. If yours is there already, edit the entry–make it clearer, more specific, add detail.)