This text of The Tempest is from Volume I of the nine-volume 1863 Cambridge edition of Shakespeare. The editors’ preface (e-text 23041) and the other plays from this volume are each available as separate e-texts.
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THE WORKS
OF
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
EDITED BY
WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A.
FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PUBLIC ORATOR
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE;
and JOHN GLOVER, M.A.
LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
VOLUME I.
Cambridge and London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1863.
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Dramatis Personæ |
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| Act I | Scene 1 | On a ship at sea. |
| Scene 2 | The island. Before Prospero’s cell. | |
| Act II | Scene 1 | Another part of the island. |
| Scene 2 | Another part of the island. | |
| Act III | Scene 1 | Before Prospero’s cell. |
| Scene 2 | Another part of the island. | |
| Scene 3 | Another part of the island. | |
| Act IV | Scene 1 | Before Prospero’s cell. |
| Act V | Scene 1 | Before the cell of Prospero. |
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Endnotes |
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| Critical Apparatus (“Linenotes”) | ||
| Texts Used (from general preface) | ||
THE TEMPEST.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.1
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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.
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.
Other Spirits attending on Prospero3. |