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The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone.After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where Prospero, a wizard, lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel, an ...
Characters used in the theatrical play The Tempest (c. 1610–1611) by William Shakespeare. Pages in category "Characters in The Tempest" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The text of The Tempest contains more stage directions than most of Shakespeare's plays, giving scholars an opportunity to see into the portrayal of characters such as Ariel in Shakespeare's time. In Act III, Scene III, for example, when Ariel, as a harpy , is directed to clap his wings on a banquet table, he causes the food to disappear by a ...
Senators are also supernumerary characters at Timon's second feast. The Roman Senators, two of them speaking roles, appear in Coriolanus, both as friends and enemies to the title character. Two Senators and a Tribune discuss the prospects of their impending war with the Britons, in Cymbeline. Many major characters in the Roman plays are Senators.
While The Tempest is frequently analysed from postcolonial angles as a reaction to European colonialism in the early modern era, Miranda does not make an appearance in the majority of such analyses. As the play's only female character, Miranda functions mostly as a representation of women instead of a representation of a colonised group.
Sycorax / ˈ s ɪ k ər æ k s / is an unseen character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). She is a vicious and powerful witch and the mother of Caliban, one of the few native inhabitants of the island on which Prospero, the hero of the play, is stranded.
The character Rachel Amber plays Prospero and the player character, Chloe Price plays Ariel briefly. The play itself occurs during episode 2. In the manga series One Piece, a character with the name Perospero appears in chapter 834, partly inspired by Prospero. His mother, Charlotte Linlin also seems to be inspired by the character as she is ...
Mark Rylance plays Ferdinand in Prospero's Books, a 1991 screen adaptation of The Tempest, directed by Peter Greenaway. Eddie Mills plays Captain Frederic, a character based on Ferdinand, in The Tempest (1998 film), which transfers the play's story to the American Civil War; Reeve Carney plays Ferdinand in the 2010 film. [5]