The Mock Tempest

The Mock Tempest, or The Enchanted Castle
Front Page of Thomas Duffett's "The Mock-Tempest, Or the Enchanted Castle." The British Library. 1675.
Written byThomas Duffet
Date premiered19 November 1674
Place premieredTheatre Royal, Drury Lane (London)
SubjectParody of Dryden–Davenant adaptation of The Tempest
GenreBurlesque / Parody

The Mock Tempest, or the Enchanted Castle is a Restoration era stage play, a parody by Thomas Duffet; it premiered in 1674, and was first printed in 1675 by the bookseller William Cademan. In creating his farce, Duffet's target was not Shakespeare's famous play, but the adaptation of it that John Dryden and Sir William Davenant wrote in the 1660s. According to critic Michael West, "There are frequent nautical metaphors, and 'more noyse and terrour than a Tempest at Sea'...."

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