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''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).
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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'') [http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/CanalsofMilan.pdf is still around today].
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* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Miranda
* [[Evil Prince]]: Antonio.
* [[Evil Plan|Good Plan]]: A rare heroic version; the entire play is Prospero's [[A God Is You|God Game]] to end his exile from Milan. 'Good' because all he wants is to get his home back and teach his evil brother a lesson. No one gets hurt, not even the evil brother, and almost all of them go back to Milan as more or less friends.
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Miranda. She cries for the victims of the storm, and only calms down when her father assures her nobody was hurt. According to some versions of the play, she tried to teach Fish-Man and resident [[Enemy to All Living Things]] Caliban to read prior to the events of the play, but gave it up when he attempted to rape her.
* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Yes, confused readers: Ariel is male. Sometimes. See [[Viewer Gender Confusion]].
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