Characters from the Tempest
- Prospero
- The play's protagonist and Miranda's father.
Usurped and exhiled by his brother Antonio, the duke of Milan.
- Miranda
- Prospero's daughter, whom he brought with him to the island when she was still a small child.
Miranda has never seen any men other than her father and Caliban.
- Ariel
- Prospero's spirit helper, a powerful supernatural being whom Prospero controls completely.
Rescued by Prospero from a long imprisonment (within a tree) at the hands of the witch Sycorax.
- Caliban
- Another of Prospero's servants.
Caliban, the son of the now-deceased witch Sycorax, acquainted Prospero with the island when Prospero arrived.
- Ferdinand
- Son and heir of Alonso, the King of Naples.
He falls in love with Miranda and happily submits to servitude in order to win her father's approval.
- Alonso
- King of Naples and father of Ferdinand.
Alonso aided Antonio in unseating Prospero as duke of Milan twelve years before.
- Antonio
- Prospero's thoroughly wicked brother who betrayed Prospero's trust and stole his dukedom years before the play begins.
- Sebastian
- Alonso's brother.
Like Antonio, Sebastian is wicked and underhanded.
- Gonzalo
- An old, honest lord.
The goodhearted Gonzalo helped Prospero and Miranda to escape and survive after Antonio usurped Prospero's title.
- Trinculo
- A jester, who provides comic relief along with Stefano.
- Stefano
- A drunken butler who provides comic relief along with Trinculo.
- Adrian
- A lord attending King Alonso of Naples.
- Francisco
A lord attending King Alonso of Naples.
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