The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare. The play is a comedy, as it contains comical characters and has a happy ending. Themes in Shakespeare’s The Tempest The Tempest is a play by William ...

There are many themes in The Tempest. Explore the main themes of freedom, empathy and forgiveness and nature versus nurture looking at how they affect characters and influence the story.

Weaver's "wooden delivery never wavers from a tone of blank meditation", and those unfamiliar with this magical play will be ...

In 1957, the great John Gielgud starred as Prospero in The Tempest at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, and proclaimed that the historic venue would thereafter be “lost to musicals”. 67 years later ...

His new production of The Tempest starring Sigourney Weaver as a female Prospero, feels almost wilfully misconceived and under-achieved. A play that cries out for rethinking has been slammed ...

Various plots against the main characters fail thanks to the magic of Prospero. The play ends with all the plotters repenting the Tempest is calmed.