The Tempest

Topic: The Tempest

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• The Pervez Database manual-PASS evidence bank lists The Tempest with 20 PASS rows.
• The evidence bank links the play to Neville letters through lemmas including irreparable, mutineer, signory, impertinent, indulgence, waspish, penetrate, inveterate, viceroy, and inquisition.
• The direct Folger text witness contains hunting or hound material in 4.1 and 5.1.
• The same witness contains artillery, bolt, or bombard language in 2.2 and 5.1.
• The same witness contains books, metal, and rule-of-commonwealth language in 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.2, and 5.1.

2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

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3. Dating and Historical Context

• This packet is being built from direct Folger scene reading and the Pervez Database alignment compilations.
• No separate local Neville wiki page for The Tempest has yet been incorporated into this packet.

4. Cannon References

• In 2.2, Trinculo says:

“looks like a foul bombard”

• In 5.1, Prospero says:

“With his own bolt”

5. Hunting and Hawking References

• In 4.1, the Folger stage direction gives:

“[A noise of hunters heard.]”

• The next direction reads:

“[Enter divers spirits in shape of dogs and hounds, / hunting them about]”

• In 5.1, Prospero says:

“Do chase the ebbing Neptune”

6. Metallurgy, Iron, Furnace, or Forge References

• In 2.1, Gonzalo says:

“No use of metal”

• In 3.2, Caliban says:

“Having first seized his books”

• In 5.1, Prospero says:

“I'll drown my book.”

7. Other Relevant Historical or Local References

• In 1.2, Prospero says:

“Through all the signories it was the first”

• In the same scene he says Gonzalo:

“Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me / From mine own library”

• In 3.2, Stephano says:

“If you prove a mutineer, the next tree.”

• In the same scene he says:

“Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys.”

• In 1.2, Miranda says:

“left me to a bootless inquisition”

8. Neville Letter Alignments

• The evidence bank links 3.2 (mutineer) to Neville’s letter_057 (2 Apr. 1600), where he refers to forces trying to “reduce the mutineers.”
• It links 1.2 (signories) to Neville’s letter_018 (7 Aug. 1599), which mentions the Signory of Venice.
• It links 1.2 (impertinent) to letter_017 (1 Aug. 1599), where Neville calls certain provisions “not impertinent.”
• It links 1.2 (inquisition) to letter_085 (8 Dec. 1604), which reports that merchants were badly used in Spain by the Inquisition.
• It links 5.1 (irreparable) to letter_088 (11 Mar. 1606 to Ralph Winwood), which warns of an “irreparable wrong.”

9. Quoted Source Text

Direct play text (Folger)

• 1.2: “Through all the signories it was the first”
• 1.2: “Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me / From mine own library”
• 1.2: “left me to a bootless inquisition”
• 2.1: “No use of metal”
• 2.2: “looks like a foul bombard”
• 3.2: “If you prove a mutineer, the next tree.”
• 3.2: “Having first seized his books”
• 3.2: “First to possess his books, for without them”
• 3.2: “Burn but his books.”
• 3.2: “Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys.”
• 4.1: “[A noise of hunters heard.]”
• 4.1: “[Enter divers spirits in shape of dogs and hounds, / hunting them about]”
• 5.1: “Do chase the ebbing Neptune”
• 5.1: “With his own bolt”
• 5.1: “I'll drown my book.”
• 5.1: “Irreparable is the loss”

10. N-gram Research

• In the codex-neville-ngram-report rare-bigram ranking, The Tempest ranks 158 with 80 shared rare bigrams.
• In the same folder’s rare-trigram ranking, the play ranks 209 with 91 shared rare trigrams; in the Jaccard-normalized trigram table it also ranks 209 with a Jaccard score of 0.002939751251817154.
• No separate exact 4–7 gram phrase dossier for The Tempest has yet been located in the current report folders. The current n-gram evidence for this play is therefore mainly the aggregate-ranking data.

11. Citations

• Evidence_Bank_AllPlays_PASS.md, Pervez Database manual-PASS evidence compilation.
• neville_rare_bigrams_vs_plays_1590_1615.csv, Pervez Database rare-bigram play ranking.
• neville_rare_trigrams_vs_plays_1590_1615.csv, Pervez Database rare-trigram play ranking.
• neville_rare_trigrams_jaccard_vs_plays_1590_1615.csv, Pervez Database Jaccard-normalized trigram ranking.
• Neville_Letters_Corpus_v8.xml, direct local letter corpus witness for letter_017, letter_018, letter_057, letter_085, and letter_088.
• Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Folger Shakespeare Library text witness:
• front_matter.txt
• act-01_scene-02.txt
• act-02_scene-01.txt
• act-02_scene-02.txt
• act-03_scene-02.txt
• act-04_scene-01.txt
• act-05_scene-01.txt

12. Notes on Access

• This packet was built from direct scene-by-scene reading of the Folger text witness plus the Pervez Database evidence compilations.