Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Tempest is a play by English playwright William Shakespeare. It was first performed in 1611. Prospero is the ...

when John Gielgud played Prospero in a production of "The Tempest" for Peter Brook; so news that Hollywood star Sigourney Weaver was to make her West End debut there, in the same role, created ...

Various plots against the main characters fail thanks to the magic of Prospero. The play ends with all the plotters repenting the Tempest is calmed.

and a speech from “The Tempest” has been running through my mind since images of charred sections of Pacific Palisades and Altadena started circulating. In Act 4, Prospero, the former Duke of ...

So wrote critic Hallett Smith of the lead character of “The Tempest,” in the revered 1974 Riverside Edition of Shakespeare’s 37 plays, long poems and sonnets. Smith was specifically ...

A controversial statue carved by the sculptor Eric Gill has been restored and has been unveiled outside the BBC's London headquarters. The Grade II*-listed statue was damaged in 2022 and 2023, when it ...

Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their ...