'The Tempest', penned by playwright William Shakespeare, as one of his last works circa 1612 is a story about many things: love, revenge, greed, politics, magic, and mystery. Even the notion of time plays a major role, and it is this aspect we shall be discussing in the following pag...

In William Shakespeare's The Tempest sub plots are used to crystallize the commentary on what it means to be a civilized man. Prospero, the evil magician on the island, is a main character in all of these plots. He cast a spell to make a ship full of royalty crash land onto an island. This ship incl...

The Tempest, Shakespeare's last full play, is a demonstration of the artist's mature powers. In this play he illustrates his ability to fit various elements of life into a single context. It is a play for all seasons, having elements of romance, comedy, fantasy, political intrigue and...

Caliban, "a thing most brutish" whose name is a near anagram of 'cannibal', is implied by Prospero to be most primitive and inferior from a "vile race". Residing on the island of his birth he is enslaved by Prospero, the exiled duke of Milan, a powerful magician. Calib...