...conciliare i contrasti e ricomporre un pur esile confine tra la realtà e la finzione: Prospero: [...] with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do I take part: the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance [...] A solemn air, and the best conforter To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains, Now useless, boil'd...

...consciousness. As he says to Ariel: Though with their [his enemies'] high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do...drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. (V, i, 25-30) Prospero 's eventual abandonment of his magic (". . . this rough magic / 1 here abjure"...

...should be noted, by Ariel) what he should do with them: Though with their high wrongs I am strook to th' quick Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury...part. The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. (5.1.25-28) Prospero defines virtuous action as superior to vengeful action, but the struggle that...