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PLOT SUMMARY The Tempest is a play about magic, betrayal, love and forgiveness. It is set on an island somewhere near Italy where Prospero, the one-time Duke of Milan, and his beautiful daughter, Miranda, live with a sprite called Ariel and a strange wildman called Caliban. Prospero is a powerful magician who creates a storm, or tempest, that sets the scene for the play. In the events that follow we see a plot to murder the King of Naples, a drunken scheme to kill Prospero and a romance between Miranda and the King’s son, Ferdinand. In the end everyone is forgiven and they all set sail for home. Video
...................... The Tempest is one of the more complex plays Shakespeare wrote, offering scope for multiple interpretations, largely because of the historical moment it was written in – about a decade before Mayflower set sail and the colonisation of the northern America by the British began in earnest, at a time when religious puritanism was on the rise in England. ........................................................
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