Ep 14: We are such stuff As dreams are made on.. Prospero's soliloquy, The Tempest, Act 4 by William Shakespeare

Prospero addresses Ferdinand and Miranda's after their wedding masque. The temporary revelry of the masque is compared to the fleetingness of life. It is commonly interpreted as an autobiographical reflection on the temporality of Shakespeare's own theatrical career as, based on scholarship, the play was his last solely conceived play.

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