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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 ...
Prospero ( / ˈprɒspəroʊ / PROS-pər-o) is a fictional character and the protagonist of William Shakespeare 's play The Tempest . Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan, whose usurping brother, Antonio, had put him (with his three-year-old daughter, Miranda) to sea on a "rotten carcass" of a boat to die, twelve years before the play begins.
Ariel is a spirit who appears in William Shakespeare 's play The Tempest. Ariel is bound to serve the magician Prospero, who rescued him from the tree in which he was imprisoned by Sycorax, the witch who previously inhabited the island. Prospero greets disobedience with a reminder that he saved Ariel from Sycorax's spells, and with promises to ...
The Tempest. ) John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), Miranda—The Tempest. 1916. Miranda is one of the principal characters of William Shakespeare 's The Tempest. She is the only female character to appear on stage. Miranda is the daughter of Prospero, another of the main characters of The Tempest.
Ariel's Song. " Ariel's song " is a verse passage in Scene ii of Act I of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. It consists of two stanzas to be delivered by the spirit Ariel, in the hearing of Ferdinand. In performance it is sometimes sung and sometimes spoken. There is an extant musical setting of the second stanza by Shakespeare's contemporary ...
It measures 80 by 106.5 centimetres (31.5 in × 41.9 in) and depicts a scene from act 1, scene ii, of William Shakespeare's play, The Tempest, with Ferdinand courting Miranda. Miranda is depicted sitting on a throne made of shells and coral, distracted and thus spilling from a bowl of milk that she has been feeding to a lamb.
Caliban (/ ˈ k æ l ɪ b æ n / KAL-i-ban), son of the witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.. His character is one of the few Shakespearean figures to take on a life of its own "outside" Shakespeare's own work: as Russell Hoban put it, "Caliban is one of the hungry ideas, he's always looking for someone to word him into being ...
What's past is prologue. " What's past is prologue " is a quotation of William Shakespeare from his play The Tempest. In contemporary use, the phrase stands for the idea that history sets the context for the present. The quotation is engraved on the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, [1] and is commonly used by the military when ...