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Medea, Euripides
Lysistrata, Aristophanes
Bhagavad Gita
The Thousand and One Nights
From The Poem of the Cid
From The Divine Comedy Inferno, Dante Alighieri
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Heptameron, Marguerite de Navarre
Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
From Don Quixote de la Manacha, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Tempest, William Shakespeare
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 councilor
ADRIAN, Francisco, lords
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, SPIRITS
SCENE: a ship at sea, followed by an uninhabited island
[Exit]
[Enter MARINERS]
[Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others]
[Exeunt]
[Re-enter BOATSWAIN]
[Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO]
[Enter MARINES wet]
[A confused noise within: ‘Mercy on us!’– ‘We split, we split!’–‘Farewell, my wife and children!’
— ‘Farewell, brother!’–‘We split, we split, we split!’]
[Exeunt ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN]
[Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA]
[Enter ARIEL]
[Exit ARIEL]
[Re-enter ARIEL like a water-nymph]
[Enter CALIBAN]
[Exit CALIBAN]
[Re-enter ARIEL, invisible, playing and singing; FERDINAND following]
[Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others]
[Enter ARIEL, invisible, playing solemn music]
[All sleep except ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, and ANTONIO]
sleeps.
[Enter CALIBAN with a burden of wood. A noise of thunder heard]
[Enter TRINCULO]
[Enter STEPHANO, singing: a bottle in his hand]
[Drinks]
[Sings]
[Sings drunkenly]
O brave monster! Lead the way.
[Enter FERNINAND, bearing a log]
[Enter MIRANDA; and PROSPERO at a distance, unseen]
[Exeunt FERDINAND and MIRANDA severally]
[Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO]
[Enter ARIEL, invisible]
[Beats TRINCULO]
[Ariel plays the tune on a tabour and pipe]
[Enter Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others]
[Enter PROSPERO above, invisible. Enter several strange Shapes,
bringing in a banquet; they dance about it with gentle actions of salutation;
and, inviting the King, & c. to eat, they depart]
[Enter ARIEL, like a harpy; claps his wings upon the table;
and, with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes]
[ALONSO, SEBASTIAN & c. draw their swords]
[He vanishes in thunder; then, to soft music enter the Shapes again,
and dance, with mocks and mows, and carrying out the table]
[Exit above]
[Exeunt SEBASTIAN, and ANTONIO]
[Execunt]
[Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA]
[Soft music]
[Enter IRIS]
[Enter CERES]
[They sing:]
[Juno and Ceres whisper, and send Iris on employment]
[Enter certain Nymphs]
[Enter certain Reapers, properly habited: they join with the Nymphs in a graceful dance;
towards the end whereof PROSPERO start