Both Miranda and Ferdinand comment on how upset Prospero appears. But Prospero, evidently disturbed all of a sudden, jumps up and makes his production vanish. After Juno gives the upcoming wedding a blessing, all of the faeries engage in a magical dance–productions all have different takes on how long the colorful dance should go on. Prospero has been entranced by his own magical production, the wedding performance he has beautiful faeries perform. One forgets that Prospero speaks these lines in the middle of a particular moment, and quoters often leave the first and last several lines out. Yet, the passage is often quoted out of context, in the manner I presented it above. It is an understandable assessment, as I suggested, since this is Shakespeare’s last play, and the play is nearing an end. Many look to this passage as a clear indication of Shakespeare’s farewell to theater, a beautiful and wistful commentary on the magic of the stage that he is about to close.
It is one of the most famous passages in Shakespeare, and often for the wrong reasons. Prospero speaks these astonishing lines early in Act 4, after jumping up with a start in the middle of the “masque” he magically concocts for the entertainment of his daughter, Miranda, and her future husband, Ferdinand. We are such stuffĪs dreams are made on, and our little life Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,Īnd, like this insubstantial pageant faded, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, These our actorsĪnd like the baseless fabric of this vision,
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