| Prospero | Sorcerer and rightful duke of Milan |
| Miranda | Prospero’s daughter; inexperienced with normal life and people; love interest is Ferdinand |
| Ariel | Prospero’s spirit helper; Rescued by Prospero from a long imprisonment at the hands of the witch Sycorax; Ariel is Prospero’s servant until Prospero decides to release him; He is mischievous and ubiquitous; carries out virtually every task that Prospero needs accomplished in the play. |
| Caliban | a savage and deformed slave; Prospero’s servant |
| Ferdinand | son of Alonso; Prince of Naples; love interest is Miranda |
| Alonso | King of Naples and fater of Ferdinand |
| Antonio | Duke of Milan and Prospero’s brother |
| Sebastian | Alonso’s brother |
| Gonzalo | Honest lord of Alonso; respected by Prospero |
| Trinculo | Alonso’s jester |
| Stephano | Alonso’s butler |
| Boatswain | Captain of Alonso’s boat |
| Locations | Island in the Mediterranean |
| Author | Shakespeare |
| Plot | … |
| “… [L]ook how well my garments sit upon me,/ Much feater than before. My brother’s servants/ Were then my fellows; now they are my men.” | Antonio |
| “Hence, bashful cunning,/ And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! / I am your wife, if you will marry me [.]” | Miranda |
| “Hear me my soul speak! / The very instant that I saw you, did / My heart fly to your service; there resides, / To make me slave to it; and for your sake / Am I this patient log-man.” | Ferdinand |
| “Before you can say ‘Come’ and ‘Go,’ / And breathe twice and cry, ‘So, so’ / Each one tripping on his toe, / Will be here with mop and mow./ Do you love me, master? No?” | Ariel |
| “[T]o the dread rattling thunder / Have I given fire and rifted Jove’s stout oak/ With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory/ Have I made shake and by spurs plucked up / the pine and cedar; graves at my command / Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let ’em forth / By my so potent art.” | Prospero |
| ” All things in common nature should produce / Without sweat or endeavor. Treason, felony, / Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine / Would I not have.” | Gonzalo |
| “Remember / First to possess his books; for without them / He’s but a sot, as I am, nor hath not / One spirit to command. They all do hate him/ As rootedly as I.” | Caliban |
| “Now my charms are all o’erthrown, / And what strength I have’s mine own, / Which is most faint. Now ’tis true/ I must be here confined by you, / Or sent to Naples.” | Prospero |
| “If you’ll sit down, / I’ll bear your logs the while. Pray give me that; / I’ll carry it to the pile.” | Miranda |
| “Admired Miranda! / Indeed, the top of admiration, worth, / What’s dearest to the world!” | Ferdinand |
| “Pardon, master. / I will be correspondent to command / And do my spiriting gently.” | Ariel |
| “But this rough magic / I here abjure; and when I have required / Some heavenly music (which I now do) / To work mine end upon their senses that / This airy charm is for, I’ll break my staff, / Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, / And deeper than did ever plummet sound / I’ll drown my book.” | Prospero |
| “I’ th’ commonwealth I would by contraries / Execute all things. For no kind of traffic / Would I admit; no name of magistrate; / Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, / And use of service, none[.]” | Gonzalo |
| “Twenty consciences / That stand ‘twixt me and Milan, candied be they / And melt, ere they molest! / Here lies your brother, / No better than the earth he lies upon — / If were that which now he’s like, that’s dead — / Whom I with this obedient steel (three inches of it) / Can lay to bed forever[.]” | Antonio |
| “Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments / Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices / That, if I had waked after long sleep, / Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, / I cried to dream again.” | Caliban |
| “O, wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there here! / How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world / That has such people in’t!” | Miranda |
| Who does Prospero conjure to offer Miranda and Ferdinand a marriage blessing? | Iris, Ceres, and Juno |
| What is the name of Ferdinand’s sister? | Claribel |
| Where is Ferdinand from? | Naples |
| Who does Claribel marry? | The Prince of Tunis |
The Tempest
July 29, 2019