Office by Alex Penny
"This is the blog I will be using to completely destroy and rebuild my views on the Bard as I journey through text after text, play after play, and so on and so forth. Prepare yourself, dear Sir William, for a rebuttle full of crazy sadness, humor, and reflection during the few months I shall be indulging in your fancies. I expect you to shed a tear, Shakespeare."
So. We all know what happened at the end of The Tempest, right? Prospero destroys his magic, and Miranda gets married to Ferdinand, and the all travel back to Italy. But… what will happen to Miranda?!
“MIRANDA: How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! Oh, brave new world that has such people in’t!” (5.1.184-186)
Which such naivety, it would be lucky for her to survive more than a week off of the island she was raised on. She will be tormented by bitchy women who find her more beautiful than themselves, and she would get destroyed. Or, she would think that chess means marriage, and therefore would want to marry any attractive male she plays chess with. OR, she could actually be a lesbian. The most likely thing to happen, however, is her inevitable death due to exposure to diseases she has not gained immunity to by being on a secluded island for the majority of her life. Basically, this “brave new world” will be the unpleasant death of her.
