Shakespeare's 'Tempest' wizard enchants

Set on a sandy island where scantily clad castaways compete against each other for power, Shakespeare's "The Tempest" could qualify as the proto-"Survivor." If that sounds like literary heresy, consider the fact that the Bard himself was seldom above baser pleasures, filling his final play with winking double-entendres involving birds, bees and bodily gratification.

August 15, 2008