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Shakespeare’s magical island in The Tempest
Patrick Stewart as Prospero in Rupert Goold's RSC production. Photograph by Alastair Muir Where is the unnamed isle in The Tempest? The literal-minded will say that it’s obviously in the Mediterranean,...
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Very like a whale: Adventures in the far North, Part 1
A sea monster from the1621 Novi Orbis Indiae Occidentalis, representing the legend of St Brendan Most people are familiar with the phrase “very like a whale”, used nowadays to indicate a mocking...
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Very like a whale: Adventures in the far North, Part 2
Seal-die of the Muscovy company In Part 1 I looked at some of Shakespeare’s references to whales, and the history of whaling in Spitsbergen. This time I’m looking at the stories of adventurers who...
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