The Tempest

Name: The Tempest
Author: William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

free · 17,568 words · 1 h 56 m audiobook, read by volunteers for LibriVox · first published 1623

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Dramatis Personae

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, lord
Francisco, lord
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 by spirits
Ceres, presented by spirits
Juno, presented by spirits
Nymphs, presented by spirits
Reapers, presented by spirits
Other spirits attending on Prospero

Scene: A ship at sea: an island.

Act I

restoring your place…

fetching the rest…

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Dramatis Personae

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, lord

Francisco, lord

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 by spirits

Ceres, presented by spirits

Juno, presented by spirits

Nymphs, presented by spirits

Reapers, presented by spirits

Other spirits attending on Prospero

Scene: A ship at sea: an island.

More by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

You get a play that keeps changing its mind about love, from the quarrelling lovers in the forest to Bottom blundering through his amateur performance. The language is playful and slippery, and Puck gives the whole thing a mischievous sense that human beings are never quite in control.

All’s Well That Ends Well

Helena chases a man who plainly doesn't deserve her, and the play knows it, which is what makes it interesting. If you like your comedies uneasy, with a bed trick and an ending that only half convinces, this one will stick with you.

Antony and Cleopatra

These two aren't young lovers, they're middle-aged, vain, magnificent messes who keep wrecking empires over each other, and you half want to shake them. Stay for Enobarbus, the dry-eyed friend whose barge speech about Cleopatra is worth the whole play.