Wedding Scene - Prospero’s Books

Peter Greenaway’s sensual hallucinatory version of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest“ was a technical and structural breakthrough film of the early 1990s. Combining animation, pantomime, dance and operatic music along with unique nested images it was also among the first features to use high definition video, Greenaway’s premise is that, after being banished from his dukedom, Prospero brings his books to the island and it is the books that allow the magic to flourish. There is also the suggestion that Prospero i