5. VOTED IN TOP 10 OF SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS.
Even though The Tempest is widely considered Shakespeare’s last work, the audience of Time Magazine voted it to be included in the Top 10 for Shakespeare’s best work. (Credits: todaytix.com) 4. THE BBC LOVES THE TEMPEST. While there is no official statement stating such things, outside the BBC News Broadcasting House there is a statue of Prospero and Ariel, welcoming employees and visitors through its doors. What’s more, The Tempest is the most performed Shakespeare play in the history of BBC radio broadcasting, with a total of 21 productions. Shakespearean plays have a rich history of inspiring obscure film adaptations (The Lion King springs to mind), and The Tempest furthers the tradition. The 1948 western Yellow Sky is a subtle-yet-solid adaptation of the play: Fleeing a bank robbery, a band of outlaws stumble across an old man and his daughter in an abandoned town. Magic is swapped for gold, while Caliban is paralleled by a band of Apache.(Credits: todaytix.com & shortlist.com) 3. AN SPACE-AGED LEGACY. The first British satellites have furthered the other-worldly legacy of The Tempest's characters with a fitting tribute: The Ariel 1 was the first British satellite in space, launched by Nasa in 1962, in addition to six other Ariel satellites developed between 1962 and 1979. In 1971, the Black Arrow R3 rocket launched "Prospero X-3", the only British satellite to be launched using a British rocket. (Credits: shortlist.com) 2. INSPIRATION BEYOND OUR EARTH TO THE MOONS OF URANUS. Thanks to a precedent set by John Herschel, son of astronomer William Herschel who discovered Uranus, two regular moons and seven of the outermost moons of Uranus are named after characters from The Tempest. These include Ariel, Miranda, Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, Trinculo, Francisco and Ferdinand.(Credits: shortlist.com) 1. THE FINAL SOLO WORK. Assuming it was written in or before 1611, the majority of scholars agree that The Tempest is Shakespeare's final solo work. Of the three works believed to have been written after The Tempest, the authorship of Cardenio remains ambiguous, Henry VIII is believed to have been written with John Fletcher, as is The Two Nobel Kinsmen. (Credits: shortlist.com) Watch "The Tempest" Movie Trailer Click here
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