Search Results: The Tempest

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare (c. 1564-1616), written in 1610 or 1611, and first performed for the court of James I of England (r. 1603-1625) on 2 November 1611. Believed to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote on his own...

Shipwreck scene (Act I Scene I) in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). Engraving by Benjamin Smith, based on a painting by George Romney, September 1797. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Prospero and Miranda, characters from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). By William Maw Egley, c. 1850.

Award-winning writer Madeline Miller's newest novel, Circe, tells the story of a sorceress who was once the onetime lover of the wily Odysseus. The heart of the novel is, nonetheless, that of a woman's yearning for self-discovery, purpose...

Cratinus was a highly successful writer of Attic Old Comedy, but the very fragmentary nature of his surviving plays means that he is not as well remembered as Aristophanes (eleven of whose plays come down to us intact). Despite this, it is...

Prince Ferdinand courts Miranda in Act I Scene II of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest; Prospero stands over the shoulder of Miranda, while Caliban carries wood, and Ariel hovers above the scene. Oil on canvas by William Hogarth, c...

Ariel, a spirit in service to Prospero in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli, c. 1800. The Folger Shakespeare Library.

Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). By Johann Heinrich Ramberg, c. 19th century. Cornell University.

Prospero speaks with the spirit Ariel as his daughter Miranda sleeps in the background. From Act I Scene II of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). Oil on canvas by William Hamilton, 1797. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie...

The two lovers, Miranda and Ferdinand, gather wood in Act III Scene I of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, as Prospero watches in the background. Oil on canvas by Angelica Kauffmann, 1782. Belvedere, Vienna.