{"id":30900,"date":"2023-11-29T15:01:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T14:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=253148"},"modified":"2023-11-29T22:11:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:11:35","slug":"shakespeare-past-master-8-the-tempest","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/shakespeare-past-master-8-the-tempest\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare: Past Master | 8. The Tempest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> With its spirits and jesters, wizards and goddesses, the playwright\u2019s late-era romance may seem a frothy concoction \u2013 yet it also tells us much about gender dynamics in the 17th century <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Matt Elton\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 29 November 2023 at 14:01 PM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Featuring shipwrecks and sorcery, betrayal and revenge, William Shakespeare\u2019s <em>The Tempest<\/em> blends fantastical elements with insightful commentary on real-life gender relations. Chris Laoutaris reveals more about the window it offers on to the Shakespearean age.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-253148-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/HistoryExtraShakespeareE6-4bc47e8.mp3?_=1\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/HistoryExtraShakespeareE6-4bc47e8.mp3\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/HistoryExtraShakespeareE6-4bc47e8.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<section class=\"highlight \"> <div class=\"highlight__content editor-content\"> <p>Want to listen to more episodes? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/podcast-series\/shakespeare-past-master-a-historyextra-podcast-series\/\">Listen to the rest of our series here<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> With its spirits and jesters, wizards and goddesses, the playwright\u2019s late-era romance may seem a frothy concoction \u2013 yet it also tells us much about gender dynamics in the 17th century <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30901,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-8-the-tempest.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-8-the-tempest-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-8-the-tempest-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-8-the-tempest.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-8-the-tempest.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-8-the-tempest.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-8-the-tempest.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"With its spirits and jesters, wizards and goddesses, the playwright\u2019s late-era romance may seem a frothy concoction \u2013 yet it also tells us much about gender dynamics in the 17th century","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/30900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}