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's Books is a Drama, Fantasy film released in 1991.
2 subtitle releases available in English.
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into something rich and strange.
425
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Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
426
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Hark! now I hear them-Ding-dong bell.
427
00:45:27,013 --> 00:45:29,802
What is't? a spirit?
428
00:45:37,741 --> 00:45:39,605
Lord, how it looks about!
429
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:43,333
Believe me, sir,
it carries a brave form.
430
00:45:43,793 --> 00:45:46,286
But 'tis a spirit.
- No, wench;
431
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it eats and sleeps and hath such senses
As we have, such.
432
00:45:51,308 --> 00:45:54,477
This gallant which thou seest Was in the wreck;
433
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and but he's something stain'd With grief,
that's beauty's canker,
434
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thou mightst call him A goodly person.
435
00:46:02,955 --> 00:46:07,621
He hath lost his fellows,
And strays about to find 'em.
436
00:46:51,460 --> 00:46:54,797
It goes on, I see,
as my soul prompts it.
437
00:46:55,219 --> 00:47:01,809
I might call him a thing divine;
for nothing natural I ever saw so noble.
438
00:47:06,071 --> 00:47:08,445
O you wonder!
439
00:47:08,869 --> 00:47:11,790
If you be maid or no?
440
00:47:13,002 --> 00:47:16,789
No wonder, sir; But certainly a maid.
441
00:47:17,093 --> 00:47:19,883
My language? Heavens!
442
00:47:21,100 --> 00:47:24,266
I am the best of them
that speak this speech,
443
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were I but where 'tis spoken.
444
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How? the best? What wert thou,
if the King of Naples heard thee?
445
00:47:30,868 --> 00:47:35,830
A single thing, as I am now, that wonders
to hear thee speak of Naples.
446
00:47:36,294 --> 00:47:40,082
He does hear me;
And that he does I weep.
447
00:47:41,011 --> 00:47:45,641
Myself am Naples, who with mine eyes,
never since at ebb,
448
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beheld The King my father wreck'd.
449
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This is a scented volume, with crimson ribbons for page-markers.
450
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There is certainly an image in the book
of a naked man and a naked woman,
451
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Everything else is conjecture.
452
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O, if a virgin, and your affection not gone forth,
453
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I'll make you The Queen of Naples.
454
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They are both in either's pow'rs;
455
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but this swift busines
I must uneasy make,
456
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lest too light winning
make the prize light.
457
00:48:28,516 --> 00:48:31,122
I charge thee that thou attend me;
458
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thou dost here usurp
the name thou ow'st not;
459
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and hast put thyself upon
this island as a spy,
460
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to win it from me, the lord on't.
461
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I'll manacle thy neck and feet together.
Sea-water shalt thou drink;
462
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thy food shall be the fresh-brook mussels,
wither'd roots,
463
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and husks wherein the acorn cradled.
Follow.
464
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No; I will resist such entertainment
till mine enemy has more power.
465
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O dear father, make not too rash a trial
of him, for He's gentle, and not fearful.
466
00:49:03,583 --> 00:49:06,622
What, I say, my foot my tutor?
467
00:49:07,088 --> 00:49:11,304
Put thy sword up, traitor;
Who mak'st a show but dar'st not strike,
468
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thy conscience Is so possess'd with guilt.
469
00:49:14,352 --> 00:49:18,436
Come from thy ward; For I can
here disarm thee with this stick
470
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And make thy weapon drop.
471
00:49:22,243 --> 00:49:26,326
Beseech you, father!
Sir, have pity; I'll be his surety.
472
00:49:26,500 --> 00:49:31,926
Silence! One word more shall make me
chide thee, if not hate thee.
473
00:49:32,344 --> 00:49:36,262
What! An advocate
for an impostor! hush!
474
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Thou think'st there is
no more such shapes as he,
475
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having seen but him and Caliban.
476
00:49:43,322 --> 00:49:47,518
Foolish wench! To th' most
of men this is a Caliban,
477
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and they to him are angels.
478
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Come on; obey.
479
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Thy nerves are in their infancy again,
And have no vigour in them.
480
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My spirits, as in a dream,
are all bound up.
481
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My father's loss,
the weakness which I feel,
482
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the wreck of all my friends, nor this
man's threats To whom I am subdu'd,
483
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are but light to me,
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