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 ...

Middlebrooks crafted this staging of “The Tempest” for her MFA thesis. She said the play, which follows exile Duke Prospero as he seeks justice from those who wronged him and his daughter ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The QSO and John Bell collaborated to produce a memorable fusion of music and theatre. “John Bell is quintessentially a hero” ...

Shakespeare in the Park project, a partnership between Playhouse 2000 and the city of Kerrville Parks and Recreation ...

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 ...

The sculpture portrays Prospero and Ariel from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Gill, a leading sculptor of the 20th century who died in 1940, was revealed in later-published diaries to have sexually ...