"Prospero Prospero ( ) 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. Prospero and Miranda survived and found exile on a small island. He has learned sorcery from books, and uses it while on the island to protect Miranda and control the other characters. Before the play has begun, Prospero frees the spirit Ariel from entrapment within ""a cloven"
"Stephano (The Tempest) Stephano ( ) is a boisterous and often drunk butler of King Alonso in William Shakespeare's play, ""The Tempest"". He, Trinculo and Caliban plot against Prospero, the ruler of the island on which the play is set and the former Duke of Milan in Shakespeare's fictional universe. In the play, he wants to take over the island and marry Prospero's daughter, Miranda. Caliban believes Stephano to be a god because he gave him wine to drink which Caliban believes healed him. Boisterous and often drunk, Stephano is willing to be regarded as a Lord by Caliban, although"
"is also the name of the spirit who serves Prospero in Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"". The moon is also designated Uranus I. Among Uranus's five major moons, Ariel is the second closest to the planet, orbiting at the distance of about 190,000 km. Its orbit has a small eccentricity and is inclined very little relative to the equator of Uranus. Its orbital period is around 2.5 Earth days, coincident with its rotational period. This means that one side of the moon always faces the planet; a condition known as tidal lock. Ariel's orbit lies completely inside the Uranian magnetosphere. The trailing"
"of being a bastard ""got by the devil himself / Upon thy wicked dam."" In ""The Tempest"", Shakespeare presents two powerful sorcerers, Prospero and Sycorax, who have both controlled the island. Initially it appears that the two characters are a contrasting pair: the benevolent Prospero and the rapacious Sycorax. However, upon closer analysis, the differences between the two characters disappear and the similarities grow. For example, Prospero, like Sycorax, coerces Ariel into doing his bidding, using the sprite to regain his inheritance as a Duke, and tortures Caliban with magic the way Sycorax tortured Ariel. Also, both Prospero and Sycorax"
"and Stephano were two characters used to show how wrong human beings are. Unlike Antonio, which was featured in no less than four plays, the name Stephano only appears in one of Shakespeare's other plays, ""The Merchant of Venice"". Stephano (The Tempest) Stephano ( ) is a boisterous and often drunk butler of King Alonso in William Shakespeare's play, ""The Tempest"". He, Trinculo and Caliban plot against Prospero, the ruler of the island on which the play is set and the former Duke of Milan in Shakespeare's fictional universe. In the play, he wants to take over the island and"
"Gonzalo (The Tempest) Gonzalo ( ) is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"". An honest and trusted adviser to King Alonso of Naples, he has a good heart and an optimistic outlook, and is described as noble. For example, when Prospero and his daughter, Miranda, were set adrift at sea, Gonzalo took pity on the two of them, supplying them not only with the food and water necessary to survive but also with those things that make life easier. In addition, Gonzalo is the only character able to see Caliban as more than a demonic beast. Gonzalo first"
"Sycorax Sycorax 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. According to the backstory provided by the play, Sycorax, while pregnant with Caliban, was banished from her home in Algiers to the island on which the play takes place. Memories of Sycorax, who dies several years before the main action of the play begins, define several of the relationships in the play. Relying on his filial"
"The Tempest The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–1611, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to believe they are shipwrecked and marooned on the island. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of"
"I could see that man (Gonzalo) someday!"" Gonzalo (The Tempest) Gonzalo ( ) is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"". An honest and trusted adviser to King Alonso of Naples, he has a good heart and an optimistic outlook, and is described as noble. For example, when Prospero and his daughter, Miranda, were set adrift at sea, Gonzalo took pity on the two of them, supplying them not only with the food and water necessary to survive but also with those things that make life easier. In addition, Gonzalo is the only character able to see Caliban as"
"the song ""The Island/Come and See"" which references Sycorax in the line ""its contents watched by Sycorax / and Patagon in parallax"". Sycorax Sycorax 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. According to the backstory provided by the play, Sycorax, while pregnant with Caliban, was banished from her home in Algiers to the island on which the play takes place. Memories of Sycorax, who dies"
"Miranda (The Tempest) Miranda is one of the principal characters of William Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"". She is the only female character to appear on stage during the course of the play and is one of only four women mentioned (Claribel, Sycorax, Miranda's mother, and Miranda). Miranda is the daughter of Prospero, one of the main characters of William Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"". She was banished to the Island along with her father at the age of three, and in the subsequent twelve years has lived with her father and their slave, Caliban, as her only company. She is openly compassionate and"
"kykeon. Pannychis is also represented. In Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"", the masque that Prospero conjures to celebrate the troth-pledging of Miranda and Ferdinand echoes the Eleusinian Mysteries, although it uses the Roman names for the deities involved – Ceres, Iris, Dis and others – instead of the Greek. It is interesting that a play which is so steeped in esoteric imagery from alchemy and hermeticism should draw on the Mysteries for its central masque sequence. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) borrowed terms and interpretations from the late 19th and early-20th century classical scholarship in German and French as a source of metaphors"
"were exiled from their respective homelands and both have children, which was possibly the reason why they were both spared being executed. The fine line between Sycorax's black magic and Prospero's white blurs even further during his renunciation of magic in Act V, a speech which has strong parallels to one given by the dark witch Medea in the ""Metamorphoses"". In comparing himself to Medea, Prospero is implicitly comparing himself to Sycorax. Emphasizing the relationship between Prospero and Sycorax demonstrates the ambiguity of Prospero's supposedly benevolent character. Sycorax has been described as the matriarchal figure of ""The Tempest"". Modernist authors"
"the sylphs Ariel and Umbriel from Alexander Pope's ""The Rape of the Lock"" (Ariel is also a sprite in Shakespeare's ""The Tempest""). The reasoning was presumably that Uranus, as god of the sky and air, would be attended by spirits of the air. Subsequent names, rather than continuing the airy spirits theme (only Puck and Mab continued the trend), have focused on Herschel's source material. In 1949, the fifth moon, Miranda, was named by its discoverer Gerard Kuiper after a thoroughly mortal character in Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"". The current IAU practice is to name moons after characters from Shakespeare's plays"
"but different from Sycorax (which is light red). Prospero (moon) Prospero ( ) is a relatively small retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus discovered on 18 July 1999 by the astrophysicist Matthew Holman and his team, and given the provisional designation S/1999 U 3. Confirmed as Uranus XVIII it was named after the sorcerer Prospero in William Shakespeare's play ""The Tempest"". The orbital parameters suggest that it may belong to the same dynamic cluster as Sycorax and Setebos, suggesting common origin. However, this suggestion does not appear to be supported by the observed colours. The satellite appears neutral (grey) in visible"
"to the theatre as an indication that Prospero was meant to represent Shakespeare; the character's renunciation of magic thus signals Shakespeare's farewell to the stage. This theory persists among later critics, and remains solidly within the critical canon. In Protestant England, where Shakespeare wrote ""The Tempest"", magic was taboo. Not all magic, however, was considered evil. Several thinkers took a more rational approach to the study of the supernatural, with the determination to discover the workings of unusual phenomena. The German Henricus Cornelius Agrippa was one such thinker, who published in ""De Occulta Philosophia"" (1531, 1533) his observations of ""divine"""
"either Greenwich Mean Time or British Summer Time depending on what is being used in London. The building showcases works of art, most prominently the statues of Prospero and Ariel (from Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"") by Eric Gill. Their choice was fitting since Prospero was a magician and scholar, and Ariel a spirit of the air, in which radio waves travel. There was, reportedly, controversy over some features of the statues when built and they were said to have been modified. They were reported to have been sculpted by Gill as God and Man, rather than Prospero and Ariel, and that"
"Prospero (moon) Prospero ( ) is a relatively small retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus discovered on 18 July 1999 by the astrophysicist Matthew Holman and his team, and given the provisional designation S/1999 U 3. Confirmed as Uranus XVIII it was named after the sorcerer Prospero in William Shakespeare's play ""The Tempest"". The orbital parameters suggest that it may belong to the same dynamic cluster as Sycorax and Setebos, suggesting common origin. However, this suggestion does not appear to be supported by the observed colours. The satellite appears neutral (grey) in visible light (colour indices B-V=0.80, R-V=0.39), similar to Setebos"
"Ferdinand (The Tempest) Ferdinand is the prince of Naples and the son of Alonso, the King of Naples, in Shakespeare's play, ""The Tempest"". He falls in love with Miranda. He is quick to promise the title of queen and wife to Miranda even though he doesn't know her name. He is happy in humble labours, blinded by love. He makes a solemn vow to be truthful to Prospero, and not to violate Miranda's chastity before their wedding. Ferdinand is aboard the ship that is run aground due to the storm created by the sorcerer and old Duke, Prospero. Ferdinand is"
"The Tempest (2010 film) The Tempest is a 2010 American film based on the 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 film was directed by Julie Taymor and premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2010. Although ""The Tempest"" received generally unfavorable reviews from critics, Sandy Powell received her ninth Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design. The film, based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, is written and directed"
"""Calibia"", an Arabic word for ""vile dog"", a Hindu ""Kalee-ban"" ""satyr of Kalee, the Hindoo Proserpine"", German ""Kabeljau"" (""codfish""), etc. Caliban Caliban ( ), 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...Caliban is a necessary idea"". Half human, half monster, after his island becomes occupied by Prospero and his daughter"
"connection to Sycorax, Caliban claims ownership of the island. Prospero constantly reminds Ariel of Sycorax's cruel treatment to maintain the sprite's service. Scholars generally agree that Sycorax, a foil for Prospero, is closely related to the Medea of Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"". Postcolonialist writers and critics see Sycorax as giving voice to peoples, particularly women, recovering from the effects of colonisation. Later versions of ""The Tempest"", beginning with William Davenant's eighteenth-century adaptation, have given Sycorax a vocal role in the play, but maintained her image as a malevolent antagonist to Prospero. In ""The Tempest"", Prospero describes Sycorax as an ancient and foul"
"which vain women approach the dressing room. In a slight parody of the divine battle in Pope's ""Rape of the Lock"", when the Baron of the poem attempts to cut a lock of Belinda's hair, the sylphs interpose their airy bodies between the blades of the scissors (to no effect whatsoever). Ariel, the chief sylph in ""the Rape of the Lock"", has the same name as Prospero's servant Ariel in Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"" (ca. 1611), and Shakespeare's character is described literally as an ""airy spirit"" in the ""dramatis personae"". This name is generally thought to have been original with Shakespeare,"
"she explored film noir movies but felt these stories did not have enough humanity or spirituality. When she read ""The Tempest"" she was inspired to recreate the shipwreck at the beginning of the play. In the first half of the show Prospero was the only dancer dressed in street clothes while the other dancers dressed in grey clothing and face masks. Prospero manipulated the other dancers as if they were robots. In the second half all of the dancers are dressed in street clothes and Prospero danced a duet or trio with each character, showcasing his relationship with them. Throughout"
"unaware of the evils of the world that surrounds her, learning of her father's fate only as the play begins. There is some speculation that Miranda, along with her husband, Ferdinand, may be intended to represent Elizabeth Stuart and her new spouse, Elector Frederick V, as ""The Tempest"" was originally performed for the court of Elizabeth's father, King James, in celebration of the marriage. ""The Tempest""'s second scene begins with Miranda centre stage, begging her father to spare the lives of the men at sea. She's fully aware of the powers Prospero possesses and begs him to cease the storm."
"Caliban Caliban ( ), 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...Caliban is a necessary idea"". Half human, half monster, after his island becomes occupied by Prospero and his daughter Miranda, Caliban is forced into servitude. While he is referred to as a calvaluna or mooncalf, a freckled monster, he"
"of the Red Death"" has been interpreted autobiographically, by some. In this point of view, Prince Prospero is Poe as a wealthy young man, part of a distinguished family much like Poe's foster parents, the Allans. Under this interpretation, Poe is seeking refuge from the dangers of the outside world, and his portrayal of himself as the only person willing to confront the stranger is emblematic of Poe's rush towards inescapable dangers in his own life. Prince Prospero is also the name of a character in William Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"". The disease called the Red Death is fictitious. Poe describes"
"Freedman's production, commented, ""Mr. Freedman did nothing on stage to make such a notion clear to any audience that had not heard of it before."" In 1988, John Wood played Prospero for the RSC, emphasising the character's human complexity, in a performance a reviewer described as ""a demented stage manager on a theatrical island suspended between smouldering rage at his usurpation and unbridled glee at his alternative ethereal power"". Japanese theatre styles have been applied to ""The Tempest"". In 1988 and again in 1992 Yukio Ninagawa brought his version of ""The Tempest"" to the UK. It was staged as a"
"recognition"" in degree. The lines of Ariel's Song do not indicate whether the ""sea change"" was caused by the application of Prospero's magical powers, or whether it was solely the result of a natural metamorphosis of the body as it rested in the environment of the deep sea. 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"
"phase. Gareth, toward the end of his quest, accepts a ring from his paramour, Lyoness, which transforms his armor into multicolors. This alludes to the panchromatic philosopher's stone, and while he is in multicolored armor, he is unbeatable. ""The Tempest"" is the most alchemically influenced of all William Shakespeare's work, steeped as it is in alchemical imagery (dying Kings and sons, Ariel as the spirit Mercurius etc.) with Prospero as the archetypal Magus. The main character in the play ""Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)"", by Ann-Marie MacDonald, succeeds in determining the alchemy behind Shakespeare's ""Othello"". Literary alchemy continues to be"
"them. William Shakespeare's 1610–11 play, ""The Tempest"", uses the idea of being stranded on a desert island as a pretext for the action of the play. Prospero and his daughter Miranda are set adrift by Prospero's treacherous brother Antonio, seeking to become Duke of Milan, and Prospero in turn shipwrecks his brother and other men of sin onto the island. A Latin translation of Ibn Tufail's ""Philosophus Autodidactus"" appeared in 1671, prepared by Edward Pococke the Younger, followed by an English translation by Simon Ockley in 1708, as well as German and Dutch translations. In the late 17th century, ""Philosophus"
"also named Sycorax. As a parallel to Shakespeare's Miranda/Ferdinand plot, Prospero has a foster-son, Hippolito, who has never set eyes on a woman. Hippolito was a popular breeches role, a man played by a woman, popular with Restoration theatre management for the opportunity to reveal actresses' legs. Scholar Michael Dobson has described ""The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island"" by Dryden and Davenant as ""the most frequently revived play of the entire Restoration"" and as establishing the importance of enhanced and additional roles for women. In 1674, Thomas Shadwell re-adapted Dryden and Davenant as an opera of the same name, usually"
"film is also notable for its extensive use of nudity, reminiscent of Renaissance paintings of mythological characters. The nude actors and extras represent a cross-section of male and female humanity. ""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 stands in for Shakespeare himself, and is seen writing and speaking the story's action as it unfolds. Ariel is"