Jerome Mandel and Michael Mooney s essays concentrate on The Tempest s dreamlike appearance of reality while Kenneth Semon and Tom Driver focus on Prospero s abilities to control the appearance of reality. Homan s essay remarks on the beauty Shakespeare can create by blending appearance and reality. Driver establishes that the plays Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest treat time in a reverse manner. Shakespeare uses Prospero to transcend time through his magic. Driver remarks on the difficulty for Shakespeare to make instantaneous actions appear to happen chronologically on stage.
Driver labels the play as neither a history, nor a comedy, but as a dream.
Further stating The Tempest establishes a new relation between time past and future . . . Driver states Prospero s omnipresence allows Shakespeare to transcend time and enter a new field of play writing. Homan believes the beauty of Shakespeare comes from Shakespeare's artistic ability to make reality appear distant, and illusion to appear real. Dream and Imagination in Shakespeare. The we refers to the audience and the actors because the play is an illusion of reality, and the actors are reality to the play.