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Prospero: I am ready now. Approach, my Ariel, come. All hail, Great master! Grave ma’am hail! I come to answer thy best pleasure; be’t to fly, to swim, to dive into the fire,to ride on the curl’d clouds, to thy…

I swear upon that bottle to be your true subject, for the liquor is not earthly Gobbled like a thing most brutish Human care If am your wife, if you will marry me. If not I’ll die your maid… you…

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At the start of Act II Scene 1, Gonzalo tries to comfort Alonso while Sebastian and Antonio make wisecracks to one another. Why is Alonso in need of comfort? What does he think has happened? Hint–he reveals the cause of…

What does Prospero say to Miranda about him being removed from Milan? “The government I cast upon my brother, And to my state grew stranger, being transported / And rapt in secret studies.” [Prospero to Miranda].” Act 1, Scene 2,…

De Grazia not only are their histories similar and their powers interchangeable but both sorceress and magician are driven by the same passion – anger Sir Peter Hall the most blasphemous play that shakespeare ever wrote… Todd Stephano’s murder plot…

Why is it significant that the play begins with a storm at sea? the ship wreakedstarts in chaos on purposestorm of conflict Why does Miranda have such immediate empathy for the men in the ship? Since we learn that she…

Who was in charge of the ship during the storm at sea? Ship-master Why did Alonso, the king, interfere with the Boatswain’s work in securing the ship during the storm? He was accustomed to being the supreme authority Where did…

Characters: Alonso, Sebastian, Prospero, Antonio, Ferdinand, Gonzalo, Caliban, Miranda, Ariel, Stephano Alonso, king of NaplesSebastian, his brotherProspero, the right of Duke MilanAntonio, his brother, the usurping (illegal) Duke of MilanFerdinand, son to the king of NaplesGonzalo, old councilor Caliban, savage/deformed…

Prospero The play’s protagonist, and father of Miranda. Twelve years before the events of the play, Prospero was the duke of Milan. His brother, Antonio, in concert with Alonso, king of Naples, usurped him, forcing him to flee in a…