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Title: The Tempest

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: William George Clark

Cambridge librarian of Trinity College John Glover

Release date: October 26, 2007 [eBook #23042]
Most recently updated: September 27, 2025

Language: English

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THE WORKS

OF

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

EDITED BY

WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A.

FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PUBLIC ORATOR
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE;

and JOHN GLOVER, M.A.

LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
 
VOLUME I.
 
Cambridge and London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1863.
Dramatis Personæ
 
Act I Scene 1 On a ship at sea.
Scene 2 The island. Before Prospero’s cell.
Act II Scene 1 Another part of the island.
Scene 2 Another part of the island.
Act III Scene 1 Before Prospero’s cell.
Scene 2 Another part of the island.
Scene 3 Another part of the island.
Act IV Scene 1 Before Prospero’s cell.
Act V Scene 1 Before the cell of Prospero.
 
Endnotes
Critical Apparatus (“Linenotes”)
Texts Used (from general preface)

THE TEMPEST.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.1

Alonso, King of Naples.

Sebastian, his brother.

Prospero, the right Duke of Milan.

Antonio, his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan.

Ferdinand, son to the King of Naples.

Gonzalo, an honest old Counsellor.

Adrian, Lords.
Francisco,

Caliban, a savage and deformed Slave.

Trinculo, a Jester.

Stephano, a drunken Butler.

Master of a Ship.

Boatswain.

Mariners.

 

Miranda, daughter to Prospero.

 

Ariel, an airy Spirit.

Iris, presented by2 Spirits.
Ceres,
Juno,
Nymphs,
Reapers,

 

Other Spirits attending on Prospero3.

Scene—A ship at sea4: an uninhabited island.

1. Dramatis Personæ] Names of the actors F1 at the end of the Play.

2. presented by] Edd.

3. Other ... Prospero] Theobald.

4. A ship at sea:] At sea: Capell.