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Ariel is beautiful and magical, a creator of dreams and of mischief. Sprung from the mind of a dazed sailor shipwrecked in the Bermuda Triangle, she rules half of her enchanted isle, dreaming of the savior from the east who will help her conquer all. When Prospero, a lost mariner, appears on the beach, his young daughter, Miranda, in tow, Ariel entices him with her visions of conquest. Together, she promises, they will defeat the mysterious tribe whose drums beat beyond the island's rain forest. The homesick ...
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Ariel is beautiful and magical, a creator of dreams and of mischief. Sprung from the mind of a dazed sailor shipwrecked in the Bermuda Triangle, she rules half of her enchanted isle, dreaming of the savior from the east who will help her conquer all. When Prospero, a lost mariner, appears on the beach, his young daughter, Miranda, in tow, Ariel entices him with her visions of conquest. Together, she promises, they will defeat the mysterious tribe whose drums beat beyond the island's rain forest. The homesick Prospero struggles to resist Ariel's charms, but he almost falls under her spell when Miranda falls in love with their servant, the island boy Caliban. Ariel wants to march west, Prospero wants to sail east, and daughter Miranda wants to play on the beach with her boyfriend. Their clash comes to a head when Ariel, summoning her full powers, creates a cataclysmic storm that will change their lives and the island forever.

Shakespeare scholar Grace Tiffany looks at the dark side of Shakespeare's The Tempest, investing a female Ariel with tremendous strength. The Tempest takes on new meaning for new readers, as Tiffany explores the imagination's power to transform grief into dangerous dreams. A tour de force by the author of My Father Had A Daughter and Will.

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Grace Tiffany is a Shakespeare expert, and has written novels for adults. Ariel, her first YA title, gives the back-story of the whimsical sprite Ariel, featured in The Tempest. The first half of the story focuses on Ariel's life on an isolated island in the Bermuda Triangle in the early Middle Ages. The tale of Caliban's origin, and the reason for his misshapen body, is recounted in order to rationalize the two beings' actions later when interacting with Prospero. Ariel is pictured as a timeless spirit who draws strength from humans, yet feels little love. The ending offers a clever link to America's "discovery" centuries later. Examining classic literature from unusual perspectives or "side" characters has captured the imagination of several authors writing today. Tiffany's treatment is credible, though the first part seems a bit uneven in writing quality. The writing improves in the second half, but the plot is more predictable as it closely follows Shakespeare's play. Nevertheless, this book will be a welcome addition to literature classes as a way to make Shakespeare more accessible. KLIATT Codes: JS—Recommended for junior and senior high school students. 2005, HarperCollins, Laura Geringer, 240p., Ages 12 to 18.
—Dr. Lesley Farmer
School Library Journal
Gr 6-10-"The first thing you should know about Ariel is that she's a liar." With this grabber, Tiffany takes the characters from Shakespeare's The Tempest and provides background as to how they get to the point where readers find them in the play. The story spans centuries, beginning with Ariel's birth "from the head of a luckless sailor, who was blown across the Atlantic in the fifty-eighth Year of Our Lord" and ending with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. In between, readers meet Caliban, Prospero, Miranda, Antonio, Alonso, Gonzalo, and Ferdinand. While the general story line remains the same, Tiffany alters some of the details in an attempt to show the motives behind the characters' behaviors. For instance, Tinkerbell-like Ariel serves Prospero because she doesn't want the magician to re-imprison her inside the tree where he first found her. Caliban, not literally a monster, walks with a deformed leg because Ariel refused to help his mother during his difficult birth. Miranda befriends him and makes her sexual desires known; thus, he is totally innocent of making improper advances. Other characters include an innocent Alonso; a spoiled, simpering Ferdinand whom Miranda eventually rejects; and a devoted, loving Caliban who wins her heart in the end. The author seems to have structured her ideas in keeping with a revisionist interpretation of the play as a condemnation of European colonialism. The prose is well written and easy to follow, using language that suggests the Bard's poetry. This is a good adjunct to the play and, in the tradition of Robin McKinley's Beauty (HarperCollins, 1978), a means of familiarizing modern-day readers with the heroes of a classic tale, while taking some interesting liberties with the original ideas.-Nancy Menaldi-Scanlan, LaSalle Academy, Providence, RI Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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A Tempest even more fantastic than the Bard's, yet oddly modern at its heart, Tiffany's story both soars and crashes. The author, a professor of English literature, creates a sprite who is pure dream, sprung from the head of a dying sailor, yet despite her considerable powers, Ariel is caught inside the Bermuda Triangle, which splits her island in half. She chafes against this boundary, and tries to convince the humans who arrive on the island to help her cross it-first Sycorax, who is more concerned with the imminent birth of her son Caliban, and later Prospero and his daughter Miranda. (In a throwaway piece of irony at the end, Christopher Columbus lands and Ariel begins to enchant him.) Tiffany's Prospero is a castaway farmer, not a sorcerer or a duke. His loving family has been searching for him; Caliban, Shakespeare's monster, is Miranda's gentle intelligent friend. All this turns Shakespeare upside down, but the new problems aren't big enough to hold the story. Ariel's unlikable and her plight uninteresting. Beautiful written, but in a teapot. (Fiction. YA)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780060753276
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 9/6/2005
  • Pages: 231
  • Age range: 12 - 14 Years
  • Product dimensions: 5.16 (w) x 7.46 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Grace Tiffany is a professor of English literature at Western Michigan University. She is the author of academic texts as well as the novels My Father Had a Daughter: Judith Shakespeare's Tale and Will, both stories of the Bard. Grace Tiffany and her family live in Kalamazoo, Michigan. This is her first novel for young readers.

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Table of Contents

Prologue: She Begins 1
Chapter 1 The Barrier 11
Chapter 2 The Woman 18
Chapter 3 The Coming of Caliban 26
Chapter 4 The Curse 36
Chapter 5 The Lie 44
Chapter 6 The Temptation 56
Chapter 7 The Betrayal 65
Chapter 8 From the East 74
Chapter 9 The Breaking of the Curse 93
Chapter 10 Dreams of Empire 106
Chapter 11 The Promise 117
Chapter 12 The Sin 130
Chapter 13 The Tempest 143
Chapter 14 Revenge 162
Chapter 15 Prospero Wakes 184
Chapter 16 The Ruse 195
Chapter 17 The Reunion 206
Chapter 18 Five Farewells 219
Epilogue: He Comes 229
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