I'm sure this whole thing is an example of false memory syndrome, but I'm hoping people here can help me out.
When I was in 6th form we used to go to the theatre a fair bit, and would often watch Shakespeare. One time we went to see The Tempest (a very good production, as it happens, with all the actors playing instruments - Caliban first walked onstage playing the tuba). Now I clearly remember there being a point in which Caliban, alone on the stage and in a moment of introspection, says the line "my name is Melancholy", meaning that he feels melancholy rather than that he's literally called Melancholy. I thought it was a beautiful line and it kept coming back to me as the years passed.
Then I re-read The Tempest and nothing I recognised as being close to the line was in it. It's been quite a few years since I read the play or saw an adaptation of it (other than Forbidden Planet, which doesn't have the original dialogue), but I can't remember there even being a scene in which Caliban is introspective or melancholy. So I did a search on a Shakespeare database and couldn't find the line. And even google searches give very few hits, none of which are to do with Shakespeare.
So my question is - is there anything in The Tempest that I could have mistaken for that line? Or in one of Shakespeare's other plays which I could be getting confused with? For the record, the ones we went to see were The Tempest, As You Like It (incredibly funny and so well acted that at times I forgot that the actor playing Rosalind disguised as a man was actually a man), King Lear, and possibly one of the Henrys, although that's more fuzzy.
When I was in 6th form we used to go to the theatre a fair bit, and would often watch Shakespeare. One time we went to see The Tempest (a very good production, as it happens, with all the actors playing instruments - Caliban first walked onstage playing the tuba). Now I clearly remember there being a point in which Caliban, alone on the stage and in a moment of introspection, says the line "my name is Melancholy", meaning that he feels melancholy rather than that he's literally called Melancholy. I thought it was a beautiful line and it kept coming back to me as the years passed.
Then I re-read The Tempest and nothing I recognised as being close to the line was in it. It's been quite a few years since I read the play or saw an adaptation of it (other than Forbidden Planet, which doesn't have the original dialogue), but I can't remember there even being a scene in which Caliban is introspective or melancholy. So I did a search on a Shakespeare database and couldn't find the line. And even google searches give very few hits, none of which are to do with Shakespeare.
So my question is - is there anything in The Tempest that I could have mistaken for that line? Or in one of Shakespeare's other plays which I could be getting confused with? For the record, the ones we went to see were The Tempest, As You Like It (incredibly funny and so well acted that at times I forgot that the actor playing Rosalind disguised as a man was actually a man), King Lear, and possibly one of the Henrys, although that's more fuzzy.
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