poetic diction, making the English language as flexible as the Greek to every shade of thought. In all these respects, the resemblance to antiquity goes just far enough to show that its result is not artificial or intentional, but the result of the same mental causes operating upon the author's poetic temperament and taste at the time, which predominated in forming the "lofty grave tragedians" of ancient Athens. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. 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. ADRIAN, } Lords FRANCISCO, 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. IRIS, CERES, JUNO, Nymphs, Reapers, presented by Spirits. Other Spirits attending on Prospero. SCENE: A ship at sea: an uninhabitec island. |