Dramatis Personae

• ALONSO, King of Naples
• FERDINAND, son to the King of Naples
• SEBASTIAN, his brother
• PROSPERO, the rightful Duke of Milan
• ANTONIO, his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan
• GONZALO, an honest old counsellor
• ADRIAN and FRANCISCO, lords
• STEPHANO, Alonso's drunken butler
• TRINCULO, a jester
• MASTER of a ship
• BOATSWAIN
• MARINERS
• CALIBAN, a savage and deformed slave
• MIRANDA, his daughter
• ARIEL, an airy spirit and Prospero's attendant
• IRIS
• CERES
• JUNO
• NYMYPHS
• REAPERS
• spirits

SCENE: On a ship at sea; afterwards on an uninhabited island.