The Tempest, our revels now are ended
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Prospero speaks these lines in The Tempest, performed at court in November 1611 and printed first in the Folio of 1623, the only early text we have. The cloud-capped towers of the speech point at the theater building as much as at the vision. Project Gutenberg carries the complete plays.
Where this text comes fromA performance has just been interrupted, and the speech that follows uses that interruption to say something much larger: the actors dissolve, then the scenery, then the towers and palaces, then the earth. It works because the audience has literally just watched a masque stop. The theater building itself is part of the argument, since the cloud capped towers being described are the ones the spectators walked past to get in. This is the first play in the collected Folio.
What you might not noticeThe word insubstantial appears here, thirteen letters, and this passage is one of the earliest places in English where it is used to mean lacking physical substance rather than lacking importance. Source
What it trainsFifteen commas in 454 characters, one short of the highest count on this shelf; a shorter Walden passage here fits fourteen into 383 characters and so runs tighter still. They are not separating a list: each one marks a clause in a sentence that keeps extending its own conclusion, which is why the passage feels harder than the count suggests. Three sentences average nearly twenty-seven words. Fourteen capitals, eleven of them at verse line openings rather than sentence openings. One apostrophe and one hyphen sit in the same word, cloud-capp’d, and the longest word, insubstantial, is thirteen letters.
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Public domain status: published in 1611, more than 125 years ago. public domain, Project Gutenberg
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