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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 ...
The Tempest is a 2010 American fantasy comedy-drama film based on the 1611 play of the same name by William Shakespeare.In this version, the gender of the main character, Prospero, is changed from male to female; the role was played by Helen Mirren.
The Tempest is believed to be the last play Shakespeare wrote alone. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In this play there are two candidate soliloquies by Prospero which critics have taken to be Shakespeare's own "retirement speech".
Prospero's Books is a complex tale based upon William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Miranda, the daughter of Prospero, an exiled magician, falls in love with Ferdinand, the son of his enemy; while the sorcerer's sprite, Ariel, convinces him to abandon revenge against the traitors from his earlier life. In the film, Prospero is Shakespeare himself ...
Miranda in The Tempest by John William Waterhouse (1916) The late romances, often simply called the romances, are a grouping of William Shakespeare's last plays, comprising Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Cymbeline; The Winter's Tale; and The Tempest. The Two Noble Kinsmen, of which Shakespeare was co-author, is sometimes also included in the grouping.
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.