The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Farewell to Theatre Itself

Mazie Kate
4 min readApr 13, 2022

Chillingly beautiful.

Miranda in “The Tempest,” via Wikipedia

When Spring Semester began, I did not expect Studies in Shakespeare to become my favorite class.

I didn’t have any particular disdain for the Bard and his work, moreso indifference. When the average person thinks of Shakespeare, they may think of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, right? That was me a few short months ago.

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Mazie Kate

Mazie McNamara is a college student in Washington. She writes about whatever she feels like, honestly.