{"id":449,"date":"2024-08-21T16:47:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T16:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jarzgar.com\/?page_id=449"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:17:47","slug":"prosperos-dead","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jarzgar.com\/?page_id=449","title":{"rendered":"PROSPERO&#8217;S DEAD  (elements trilogy 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">WATER \/ SPIRIT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of Shakespeares&#8217;s swan song &#8216;The Tempest&#8217;, moon-calf and monster Caliban is left on the beach unclad, unhinged and alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five years later in Milan, his old master &#8211; magician, magus and manipulator Prospero &#8211; reaches the end of his days. His passing triggers a new storm, a fresh cosmic disturbance that brings two of Caliban&#8217;s old sparring partners back to the enchanted isle to play out a naked triangular rite of ambition, dream and desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This stripped-back late-night fever-dreamed version of events half a decade on from the Bard&#8217;s late romance is a rich and strange concoction of candid sights and sounds and sweet airs combining to deliver a sensual feast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2731\" height=\"4096\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jarzgar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PD2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-597\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jarzgar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/munch-the-sun.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-538\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"974\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jarzgar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ariel-caliban-ferdinant.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-450\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATER \/ SPIRIT At the end of Shakespeares&#8217;s swan song &#8216;The Tempest&#8217;, moon-calf and monster Caliban is left on the beach unclad, unhinged and alone. Five years later in Milan, his old master &#8211; magician, magus and manipulator Prospero &#8211; reaches the end of his days. His passing triggers a new storm, a fresh cosmic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jarzgar.com\/?page_id=449\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PROSPERO&#8217;S DEAD  (elements trilogy 1)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-449","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jarzgar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jarzgar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jarzgar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarzgar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarzgar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarzgar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarzgar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/449\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarzgar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jarzgar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}