Prospero's Books
Prospero's Books est pellicula Anglice anno 1991 a Petro Greenaway moderata. Musica a Michaele Nyman composita est; saltationes Carina Saporta direxit. Pellicula e comoedia Shakesperiana The Tempest oritur, sed in multis rebus mutata. Titulus e versibus Shakesperianis sumitur in quo Prospero, dux Mediolanensis in exsilio in insula quadam degens, filia sua Miranda originem eorum et evasionem explicat:
Some food we had, and some fresh water, that
A noble Neopolitan Gonzalo
Out of his charity (who being then appointed
Master of this designe) did give us, with
Rich garments, linnens, stuffs, and necessaries
Which since have steeded much; so of his gentlenesse
Knowing I loved my bookes, he furnishd me
From mine owne Library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedome (The Tempest act. I sc. 2).
Quos libros, a Shakesperio minime enumeratos, Greenaway seriatim ad numerum quattuor et viginti in scaenam pelliculae promovet, sequentiam ita episodiorum evolvens:
 Liber aquae
 Liber speculorum
 Liber mythologiarum
 Manuale parvarum stellarum
 Atlas olim ad Orpheum pertinens
 Liber acer geometriae
 Liber colorum
 Vesalii anatomia partús
 Enumeratio mortuorum alphabetica
 Liber fabularum peregrinatorum
 Liber Telluris
 Liber architecturae et aliae musicae
 Conceptús duo et nonaginta Minotauri
 Liber linguarum
 Plantae finales
 Liber amoris
 Bestiarium animalium quae fuerunt et sunt et erunt
 Liber utopiarum
 Liber cosmographiae universalis
 Traditio ruinarum
 Vitae Pasiphaës et Semiramidis ab ipsis scriptae
 Liber motús
 Liber ludorum
 Ludi scaenici sex et triginta, quorum primus nondum scriptus est
Pelliculae actores principales sunt:
 Ioannes Gielgud - Prospero
 Michael Clark - Caliban
 Michael Blanc - Alonso
 Erland Josephson - Gonzalo
 Isabella Pasco - Miranda
 Thomas Bell - Antonio
 Kennethus Cranham - Sebastian
 Marcus Rylance - Ferdinand
 Gerardus Thoolen - Adrian
 Petrus Bokma - Francisco
 Iacobus van der Woude - Trinculo
 Michiel Romeyn - Stephano
 Paulus Russell et Iacobus Thiérrée - Ariel

Notae

Nexus externi 
 De libris Prospero apud petergreenaway.org.uk
 
 Prospero's Books apud allrovi.com

Bibliographia 
 Peter Greenaway, Prospero's Books. A Film of Shakespeare's "The Tempest". Londinii, 1991
 Herbert Klein, "'The far side of the mirror': Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books" in Erfurt Electronic Studies in English no. 12 (1996)
 James Tweedie, "Caliban's Books: The Hybrid Text in Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books" in Cinema Journal vol. 40 no. 1 (Fall 2000) pp. 104-126

Pelliculae 1991
Pelliculae Britannicae
The Tempest