Academy Award-winning actor Christopher Plummer stars as Prospero in The Tempest. Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by ...

In Writer, Producer, and Director Julie Taymor's version of "The Tempest", the main character is now a woman named Prospera (Dame Helen Mirren). Going back to the sixteenth or seventeenth century ...

So wrote critic Hallett Smith of the lead character of “The Tempest,” in the revered 1974 Riverside Edition of Shakespeare’s 37 plays, long poems and sonnets. Smith was specifically ...