The year 1611 includes a significant landmark – the launch of William Shakespeare's final sole-authored play, The Tempest, which explores many elements of James's authority in 1611: his seemingly providential survival of plots and conspiracies, his concern with international matchmaking and the future of the Stuart dynasty, and his interest in the responsibilities of kingship and government. The play's tragicomedy of ‘strangeness′ and ′wonder′ deploys magical visual effects and witty language, as well as the rhetoric of theme and variation on the adjectives ‘strange′ and ′wondrous′ themselves, to bring these unusual elements to the fore in the play. The Tempest ends with promises from Prospero about a royal marriage between Miranda and Ferdinand, and the journey home will be safe and ‘expeditious’ for all with ‘calm seas’ and ‘auspicious gales’. This shipping forecast is a far cry from the opening of the play when a dramatic and destructive storm appears.