For Charles I's concluding speech, see Exiles.
For the guests in THE TAPROOM OF THE OLD PHOENIX in the Epilogue, pp. 228-229, see A Large Gathering In The Old Phoenix.
At last the text belatedly catches up with Will's knighthood by Charles I and refers to him correctly as "Sir William Fairweather" in xxv, pp. 222 and 223.
Oberon, thanking Rupert and Jennifer, says:
"'Ye have lit countless candles in a shadow.'" (xxv, p. 226)
However, Valeria states at the end of the Epilogue that the machine, science and reason triumphant are the real New World in the Shakespearean timeline. Thus, that world is not heading towards goetic science so maybe Faerie will have to withdraw?
Backtracking to xx, pp. 185-186, we learn there that, since Shakespeare is the Historian, his texts are not performed as plays but read as chronicles.
That seems to wind up this rereading of A Midsummer Tempest although other details might still attract our attention.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Yes, but if Faerie has to fade away in the universe of A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST, it's better that it happens gradually, gently, and by an avoiding of at least some of the harsher results of the Industrial Revolution. Oberon and Titania might be content with that!
Ad astra! Sean
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