The Tempest

by William Shakespeare Genre: Classics   On an isolated island, the magician Prospero plots revenge for a family betrayal. Meanwhile Prospero's daughter encounters other humans for the first time in her memory. Shakespeare’s comedy about a major act of betrayal, ill treatment, the development of magic arts and a plot of revenge. Twelve years ago, Prospero was Duke of Milan. Being of a bookish disposition, he withdrew more and more into his studies, leaving the management of his state to his brother Antonio. Eventually, with the help of Alonso, King of Naples, and the King's brother Sebastian - inveterate enemies of Prospero - Antonio usurped the dukedom for himself. Prospero and his baby daughter Miranda were put to sea in a rotten boat and eventually landed on a distant island once ruled by the witch Sycorax but now inhabited only by her son, Caliban, and Ariel, a spirit.