{"id":14367,"date":"2016-11-01T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=14367"},"modified":"2016-10-31T19:50:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T02:50:46","slug":"shakespeares-great-storm-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2016\/11\/shakespeares-great-storm-begins.html","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare’s Great Storm Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"prospero_tempest\"<\/a><\/p>\n

On this day in 1611 Shakespeare\u2019s the Tempest<\/em> played for the first time at the Whitehall Palace in London. Some say his masterwork. Certainly my favorite of his plays.<\/p>\n

As Caliban sings to us<\/p>\n

Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
\nSounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.
\nSometimes a thousand twangling instruments
\nWill hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices
\nThat, if I then had waked after long sleep,
\nWill make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming,
\nThe clouds methought would open, and show riches
\nReady to drop upon me, that when I waked,
\nI cried to dream again.<\/em><\/p>\n

The great dream itself, dreaming reality\u2026<\/p>\n

Something I find worth recalling on this feast of all saints\u2026<\/p>\n