The Tempest Quotes – Magic

Act 1 Scene 2 Stage Direction Enter Prospero (wearing a cloak and bearing a staff)
Act 1 Scene 2 Miranda “If by your art…”
Act 1 Scene 2 Prospero “…pluck my magic garment from me…”
Act 1 Scene 2 Prospero “The direful spectacle of the wrack…I have…so safely ordered…”
Act 1 Scene 2 Prospero “Rapt in secret studies”
Act 1 Scene 2 Prospero “I loved my books…volumes that I prize above my dukedom”
Act 1 Scene 2 Prospero “Thou art inclined to sleep”
Act 1 Scene 2 Prospero “Hast thou, spirit, performed to point the tempest that I bade thee”
Act 1 Scene 2 Caliban “I must obey; his art is of such power”
Act 1 Scene 2 Stage Direction Ferdinand is… “Paralysed by Prospero’s Magic”
Act 3 Scene 2 Caliban “I am subject to a… Sorcerer”, “by sorcery he got this Isle”
Act 3 Scene 2 Caliban “Possess his books; for without them he’s but a sot”
Act 4 Scene 1 Prospero to Ariel “I must use you in such another trick”
Act 5 Scene 1 Stage Direction Enter Prospero in his “magic robes”
Act 5 Scene 1 Prospero “I have bedimmed the noontide sun”, “graves at my command have waked their sleepers”
Act 5 Scene 1 Prospero “This rough magic I here abjure”, “I’ll break my staff”, “I’ll drown my book”
Act 5 Scene 1 Stage Direction “There stand charmed” (when Prospero charms Alonso, Gonzalo, Sebastian, Antonio and addresses their transgressions)