quick notes

[David Casseres]

Felix Miller sez
>	the ariel song from the tempest - "where the bee sucks" - is sung,
>as i recall, immediately prior to ariel's release from servitude to
>prospero.  and, keeping in mind the recent vogue of reading the tempest in
>a post-colonial fashion, any and all connections to american expansion on
>TRP's part certainly seem within reason.  have to admit that i do not own

My old drama prof figured that when Prospero gives up Ariel, he begins to 
die.  He proposed that the staging might indicate a heart attack at 
Ariel's actual departure.


Cheers,
David