Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books: A Tempest between Word and Image

This study analyzes the way Peter Greenaway in his fllm "Prospero's Books" reinterprets Shakespeare's "The Tempest" by underlining the way he organizes the material from the Shakespearean play to bring about a specific imaginative response. My analysis is limited to the exploration of the spatial field created by Greenaway in the first sequences of the shipwreck, particularly interesting and characteristic of the film, since, according to Greenaway himself, "the start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point".