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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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