The Tempest

A deposed nobleman who practices magic uses his control of a remote island and a spirit servant to conjure a storm that brings his usurpers and other nobles to shore. Shipwrecked survivors, including a grieving monarch and a young prince, are separated and encounter the island's inhabitants: the sorcerer's compassionate daughter, a raw native resentful of colonization, and comic drunks who befriend a slave. The conjuring initiates schemes of seduction, revenge, and comic misrule, but culminates in revelations, reconciliations, and the magician's renunciation of supernatural power. The play probes authority, forgiveness, illusion, and the costs of exile.