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| Peter Greenaway: Prospero's Books (1991) with Mark Rylance as Ferdinand, Sir John Gielgud as Prospero and Isabelle Pasco as Miranda. Photo: IMDb. Please click on the photo to enlarge it. |
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
— Prospero's address to Miranda and Ferdinand, in William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1.
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