When Prospero’s enemies, all corrupt European politicians, are passing the island he causes the ship to be wrecked and they land on the island, where Prospero manipulates them and controls their actions. Miranda has been tutored by him and she is now an educated young woman, although she knows very little about the outside world. When we first see him he is a fully-fledged magician. During the fifteen years on the island Prospero had studied so much that he had surpassed all knowledge of science and entered the realm of magic. The boat is thrown up on a Mediterranean island. He is placed in a boat full of his books, with his baby daughter, Miranda, and set adrift.

In Shakespeare’s The Tempest Prospero, the Duke of Milan, has been overthrown by his brother. It is used ironically as the brave new world, presented as an utopia, turns out in fact to be a nightmare in which human beings are trapped in a society where their humanity is deleted. It’s a phrase taken from Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest. The phrase ‘Brave New Word’ is most famously the title of a science fiction novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932.

Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.

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