Tempest (version 2)

By William Shakespeare · Running time 02:25:28 · Comedy, Romance

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Few plays have been seen as a more fitting conclusion to a playwright's career than Shakespeare's The Tempest . Focusing on the aging sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan, Prospero, we are transported to a remote island where magic and strange music fill the air, and the monstrous slave Caliban roams in bitterness. Seeing an opportunity to restore his slandered name, Prospero conjures a mighty storm to bring down a ship containing his wicked brother and the King of Naples, both of whom had driven him out of Milan twelve years before. By stranding them on a remote end of the island, and with the

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