Full Fathom Five
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"Full fathom five" are the opening words of a famous song sung by the spirit Ariel in William Shakespeare
's The Tempest (I, ii), and the source of the phrase. The phrase "sea change", meaning a transmutation, also originates from this song.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
's The Tempest (I, ii), and the source of the phrase. The phrase "sea change", meaning a transmutation, also originates from this song.
People using the name Full Fathom Five
- Full Fathom FiveFull Fathom Five (band)Full Fathom Five is a six-piece band from Brisbane, Australia, that performs a minimalist blend of rock and electronica that has been described as "Chemical Brothers on valium"...
is a six-piece band from Brisbane, Australia. - Full Fathom Five is the name of a content production company started and owned by novelist James FreyJames FreyJames Christopher Frey is an American writer. His books A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard , as well as Bright Shiny Morning , were bestsellers...
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Works with the title Full Fathom Five
- Full Fathom Five is a 2008 currency collage by Mark Wagner (80 x 36 in. / 203 x 91 cm).
- Full Fathom Five is the title of a live CDFull Fathom Five (album)Full Fathom Five is a live album by the band Clutch. The full name of the album is Full Fathom Five: Audio Field Recordings, differentiating from the accompanying DVD release Full Fathom Five: Video Field Recordings...
/DVDFull Fathom Five (DVD)Full Fathom Five is a live DVD by the band Clutch. The full name of the DVD is Full Fathom Five: Video Field Recordings, differentiating from the accompanying album release Full Fathom Five: Audio Field Recordings...
release by the band ClutchClutch (band)Clutch is an American rock band from Germantown, Maryland, formed in 1990. The band's first release was an EP entitled Pitchfork, which debuted in October 1990. Their first studio album, Transnational Speedway League, was released three years later in 1993. To date, Clutch has released nine studio...
. - "Full Fathom FiveFull Fathom Five (Doctor Who audio)Full Fathom Five is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Doctor Who Unbound dramas pose a series of "What if...?" questions.-Plot:What if.....
" is an audio drama based on the Doctor WhoDoctor WhoDoctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
television series. - Full Fathom Five is a song by The Stone RosesThe Stone RosesThe Stone Roses are an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester in 1983. They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement that was active during the late 1980s and early 1990s...
. - Full Fathom Five is a song by Miranda Sex GardenMiranda Sex GardenMiranda Sex Garden were a music group from London, England. Formed in 1990, they were originally a trio of madrigal singers. Their first album, Madra , was entirely a cappella, with the songs all based on traditional English verse...
. - Full Fathom Five is a song by Greenhorse.
- Full Fathom Five is a 1947 painting by Jackson PollockJackson PollockPaul Jackson Pollock , known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and...
. - Full Fathom Five is a 1948 novel by American writer Ahmad Kamal.
- Full Fathom Five is the first of the songs in Three Shakespeare SongsThree Shakespeare SongsThree Shakespeare Songs is a piece of classical choral music written for an a cappella SATB choir. It was written in 1951 by the British classical composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. The work comprises three short pieces which are settings of text from two plays by the English playwright William...
, a choral piece written in 1951 by Ralph Vaughan WilliamsRalph Vaughan WilliamsRalph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...
. - Full Fathom Five is one of the songs in Songs for Ariel, written by Benjamin BrittenBenjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
. - Full Fathom Five is a 1958 poem by Sylvia PlathSylvia PlathSylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer...
. - Full Fathom Five is sung by Marianne Fathfull on her 1965 album "Come My Way"
- Full fathom five is the second of Three Songs from William Shakespeare by Igor StravinskyIgor StravinskyIgor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
. - "Full Fathom Five" is the title of episode #21 which deals with submarine warfare, of the "Victory at SeaVictory at SeaVictory at Sea is a documentary television series about naval warfare during World War II that was originally broadcast by NBC in the USA in 1952–1953. It was condensed into a film in 1954. The music soundtrack, by Richard Rodgers and Robert Russell Bennett, was re-recorded and sold as record albums...
" television series. - Full Fathom Five is a book by Mary Lee Coe Fowler about her search for the facts about the loss of her submarine captain father during World War II and the insights that search has brought.
- "Full Fathom Five" is the title of an episode of the television series Hawaii Five-OHawaii Five-OHawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. The show featured a fictional state police unit run by Detective Steve McGarrett,...
. It premiered in 1968 as the first one hour episode of season 1, a few weeks after the 2-hour premiere was shown on CBS. - Full Fathom Five (film)Full Fathom Five (film)Full Fathom Five is an action film from 1990, written by Bart Davis and directed by Carl Franklin, starring Michael Moriarty, Maria Rangel, and Diego Bertie.-Synopsis:Full Fathom Five, based on the novel by...
is a 1990 film. - Full Fathom Five is a 1994 album by Sub SubSub SubSub Sub were an English dance act from Wilmslow, Cheshire composed of Jimi Goodwin and twin brothers Andy and Jez Williams.The threesome met at school in 1985 and became regulars at The Haçienda while composing their own material together...
. - Five Fathoms is a 1999 song by Everything but the GirlEverything but the GirlEverything but the Girl was a two-person English band, formed in Hull during 1981, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, and singer Ben Watt . They are currently inactive although vocalist Tracey Thorn hinted that they may reform someday...
. - "Full Fathom Five" is a novel by Australian author Kate ForsythKate ForsythKate Forsyth is an Australian fantasy author, best known for the Witches of Eileanan series, and the Rhiannon's Ride series, which is also set in Eileanan....
under the pen-name Kate Humphrey.
Works using the phrase Full Fathom Five
- Full fathom five is the opening line to the song "Anchor MeAnchor Me (Greenpeace song)"Anchor Me" is a song by the New Zealand band The Mutton Birds from their 1993 album, Salty. In 2005, an all-star line-up of New Zealand artists collaborated to re-record the song, under the name Greenpeace, as a charity-fundraising single to mark the twentieth anniversary of the bombing of...
" by The Mutton BirdsThe Mutton BirdsThe Mutton Birds was a band from New Zealand formed in 1991 by Don McGlashan, Ross Burge, and David Long.-History:All three members came into the band with experience: McGlashan came from Blam Blam Blam and The Front Lawn, guitarist Long had played in the Six Volts and Burge had played in the...
. - Much of the poem itself, including Full fathom five is used in the song "Blue Lagoon" by Laurie AndersonLaurie AndersonLaura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...
- Sting's song "Pirate's Bride" uses the phrase in the line, "Full fathom five my true love lies."
- Full Fathom Five is the title of the 1965 book by John Stewart Carter which won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award
- James Joyce's Ulysses contains the phrase "Full fathom five thy father lies"
- Barbara KingsolverBarbara KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the former Republic of Congo in her early childhood. Kingsolver earned degrees in biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before...
's novel The Poisonwood BibleThe Poisonwood BibleThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver isa bestselling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, close to the Kwilu River...
refers to the poem following the news of the patriarchal character Nathan Price's death. - The five episode case in Yours Truly, Johnny DollarYours Truly, Johnny DollarYours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama of "the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account — America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator." The show aired on CBS Radio from January 14, 1949 to September 30, 1962...
, "The Fathom Five Matter" uses the poem in full in the first episode, and the boat at the center of the case is named the Fathom Five.
Other uses
- Fathom Five National Marine ParkFathom Five National Marine ParkFathom Five National Marine Park is a National Marine Conservation Area in the Georgian Bay part of Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada, that seeks to protect and display shipwrecks and lighthouses, and conserve freshwater ecosystems...
is a largely underwater national park in Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada.
See also
- Sea ChangeSea ChangeSea Change is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock artist Beck, released on September 24, 2002. Recorded over a two month period at Ocean Way Studios in Los Angeles with producer Nigel Godrich, the record includes themes of heartbreak and desolation, solitude and loneliness...
- Rich and StrangeRich and StrangeRich and Strange is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock during his time in the British film industry. It was adapted by Hitchcock, his wife Alma Reville, and Val Valentine from a novel by Dale Collins. The film is most notable for the techniques utilized by Hitchcock that would reappear later in...
- List of titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases