Characters
Prospero is the rightful Duke of it.
What is Milan?
What task does Prospero set for Ferdinand?
What is carrying logs?
Who said
"O brave new world that has such people in't!"
Who is Miranda?
Milan is now part of this country.
What is Italy?
This king made Shakespeare and his actors The King's Men.
Who is James I of England (James VI of Scotland)
His father is the devil.
Who is Caliban?
Gonzalo made sure that Prospero had these things that he valued more than his Dukedom.
What are Prospero's books?
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Who is Ariel?
This officer is in charge of all action on the ship's deck.
What is a boatswain?
This town was where Shakespeare was born and later retired.
What is Stratford-upon-Avon?
Ariel was once her servant.
Who is Sycorax?
This caused Caliban and his friends to walk through briars and swamps.
What is Ariel's music?
Who said
"We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again,
And by that destiny to perform an act
Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come
In yours and my discharge."
Who is Antonio?
This fantastical creature is an instrument of vengeance.
What is a Harpy?
The Tempest was performed for this special occasion.
What was the wedding of King James' daughter?
He was saved by a wine barrel.
Who is Stephano?
Prospero did this to earn Ariel's service.
What is release him from imprisonment in a pine tree?
Who said,
"Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not."
Who is Caliban?
This goddess was expressly excluded from the masque presented to Ferdinand and Miranda.
Who is Aphrodite?
This was how Shakespeare earned enough money to retire (three ways).
What are writing plays, performing in them, owning the theatre, owning real estate, and writing poetry.
Her father is the King of Naples.
Who is Claribel?
Gonzalo is confident in the shipwreck because he thinks this will happen to the boatswain.
What is hanging?
I' the commonwealth I would by contraries
Execute all things; for no kind of traffic
Would I admit; no name of magistrate;
Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,
And use of service, none; contract, succession,
Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;
Who is Gonzalo?
This is the location of Tunis, from which Alonso and his party were sailing.
Where is North Africa?
Shakespeare did not publish this play, but we have the full text of it from this source.
What is the First Folio?