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[[File:Scene_From_tempest_Poole.jpg|frame|A scene -- after <s>one hard party</s> enchantments]]
''[[The Tempest]]'' is one of [[William Shakespeare]]'s "problem plays" (neither comedy or tragedy), also called "romances." The play centers around Prospero, the former Duke of Milan who was usurped by his brother, Antonio, and sent out to sea with just his books and his daughter, Miranda. Twelve years later, Prospero is ruling over a seemingly deserted island, with two of the island's only other beings at his command: Ariel, an air spirit (who's grateful to Prospero for rescuing him from being trapped in a tree, but would like to be freed from his service soon), and Caliban, the deformed son of a witch (who hates his master, and makes no secret of it).
When Antonio, along with a group that includes the King of Naples and his son, Ferdinand, sails by the island, Prospero has Ariel create a storm (the emponymous tempest) to shipwreck them onto the island, so that Prospero may have his revenge. The story ends happily, though, with Prospero forgiving those that wronged him, Ferdinand and Miranda falling in love and getting married, and Ariel getting his hard-earned freedom.
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There are roughly twenty-one filmed and televised versions of this play. Some play it straight, some update to modern times, and others such as ''Prospero's Books'' are [[Mind Screw|massively wild re-interpretations]].
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* [[The Alcoholic]]: Stephano and Trinculo.
* [[Artistic License Geography]] / [[Critical Research Failure]]: '''Averted'''. Act I Scene 2 tells us that Prospero and Miranda were taken from Milan by "bark" (boat) "some leagues to the sea" where they were put aboard "a rotten carcass of a boat". While Milan does not have direct access to the ocean, Milan does have access to an extensive network of canals, one of which connects Milan to the Mediterranean Sea via the Ticino river. The Grand Canal (''Naviglio Grande'') [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511005339/http://
* [[The Atoner]]: Prospero has moments of this later in the play, and renounces sorcery at the end.
* [[Attempted Rape]]: In the [[Backstory]], Caliban tried this on Miranda.
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* [[Jerkass]]: Antonio and Sebastian.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Antonio gets absolutely no comeuppance for his actions against Prospero.
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: Ferdinand and Miranda's fathers are brothers.
** [[Surprise Incest]]
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Shakespearean costuming was usually done with rich, well kept contemporary clothes regardless of the setting. This is why Prospero mentions how he was given rich linens before being exiled from Milan, and why the shipwrecked noblemen comment on how their clothes are bone dry despite having been sent through a storm.
* [[Love At First Sight]]: Ferdinand and Miranda.
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