Prospero's Books
Prospero's Books est pellicula Anglice anno 1991 a Petro Greenaway moderata. Musica a Michaele Nyman composita est; saltationes Carina Saporta direxit. Pellicula e comoedia Shakesperiana The Tempest oritur, sed in multis rebus mutata. Titulus e versibus Shakesperianis sumitur in quo Prospero, dux Mediolanensis in exsilio in insula quadam degens, filia sua Miranda originem eorum et evasionem explicat: Some food we had, and some fresh water, that A noble Neopolitan Gonzalo Out of his charity (who being then appointed Master of this designe) did give us, with Rich garments, linnens, stuffs, and necessaries Which since have steeded much; so of his gentlenesse Knowing I loved my bookes, he furnishd me From mine owne Library with volumes that I prize above my dukedome (The Tempest act. I sc. 2). Quos libros, a Shakesperio minime enumeratos, Greenaway seriatim ad numerum quattuor et viginti in scaenam pelliculae promovet, sequentiam ita episodiorum evolvens: Liber aquae Liber speculorum Liber mythologiarum Manuale parvarum stellarum Atlas olim ad Orpheum pertinens Liber acer geometriae Liber colorum Vesalii anatomia partús Enumeratio mortuorum alphabetica Liber fabularum peregrinatorum Liber Telluris Liber architecturae et aliae musicae Conceptús duo et nonaginta Minotauri Liber linguarum Plantae finales Liber amoris Bestiarium animalium quae fuerunt et sunt et erunt Liber utopiarum Liber cosmographiae universalis Traditio ruinarum Vitae Pasiphaës et Semiramidis ab ipsis scriptae Liber motús Liber ludorum Ludi scaenici sex et triginta, quorum primus nondum scriptus est Pelliculae actores principales sunt: Ioannes Gielgud - Prospero Michael Clark - Caliban Michael Blanc - Alonso Erland Josephson - Gonzalo Isabella Pasco - Miranda Thomas Bell - Antonio Kennethus Cranham - Sebastian Marcus Rylance - Ferdinand Gerardus Thoolen - Adrian Petrus Bokma - Francisco Iacobus van der Woude - Trinculo Michiel Romeyn - Stephano Paulus Russell et Iacobus Thiérrée - Ariel