David Threlfall as Prospero in The Tempest: 'Our revels now are ended' – video

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, David Threlfall speaks Prospero’s lines from The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1. As a masque comes to its close, the sorcerer contemplates the end of life – and the playwright, perhaps, considers the end of his career

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Dan Susman, Jess Gormley, Pascal Wyse, Tom Silverstone , Liese Spencer, Chris Wiegand and Emma John, theguardian.com

Mon 29 Feb 2016 07.00 EST Last modified on Tue 9 Jun 2020 09.11 EDT

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