Prospero has two servants: Ariel, a delicate and bird-like spirit who is invisible, except to his master and he performs magical tasks for him, and Caliban, a misshapen monster, the son of the wicked witch Sycorax, who died before Prospero arrived on the island.
The other members of the party are Gonzalo, an old courtier of Milan, the man who tried to help Prospero and Miranda after the coup and two of Alonso’s courtiers, Adrian and Francisco. With him is his villainous brother, Sebastian and his son, Ferdinand, who falls in love with Miranda the moment he sets eyes on her. Prospero causes a shipwreck as his brother, Antonio, with a party of other dignitaries is returning from a wedding in Tunis.Īlonso, the King of Naples, helped Antonio to depose Prospero. During that time he has studied magic and now controls the island through that art. Main characters in The Tempest: Prospero, the Duke of Milan, overthrown by his brother, Antonio, lives on the island with his Daughter, Miranda after having been put into a boat and pushed out to sea 12 years before. Read The Tempest in simple, modern English Genre classification: The Tempest does not conform to any of Shakespeare’s usual play genres. During his retirement, he was visited by many of his former colleagues in the London theatres, and worked with them on their plays, but The Tempest was more or less a signing-off of his full-time career. The Tempest is the last play Shakespeare wrote before retiring to Stratford. Read more about The Tempest settings.ĭate written: 1611.
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The enchanted island, inhabited by spirits, full of strange sounds and music, is the setting for a magical drama of loss, love and reconciliation. The action of The Tempest play takes place on an island in the Mediterranean. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order.
Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.
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