THE TEMPEST. BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND GLOSSARY, R. SUTTON & Co.; Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Hamilton, Adams & Co. ; Relfe Brothers. 1889. [Entered at Stationers' Hall, and all Rights reserved.] DRAMATIS PERSONE. ALONSO, King of Naples. SEBASTIAN, his Brother. PROSPERO, the rightful Duke of Milan. ANTONIO, his Brother, the usurping Duke of Milan. FERDINAND, Son to the King of Naples. GONZALO, an honest old Counsellor. Other Spirits attending on Prospero.2 SCENE-A Ship at Sea; an Island. 1 Ariel, an airy Spirit. Drake, Shakspeare and his Times, vol. ii., p. 521, thinks that Shakespeare had read Batman uppon Bartholome, His Booke De proprietalibus Rerum, 1582, who tells us (p 168 col. 4) that spirites are divided one from another, that some are called firie, " some earthly, some airie, and some watrie.' 2 The Folio gives the "Names of the Actors," i.e., the Dramatis Personæ, at the end of the play, where, too, the scene is described as "an vn-inhabited Island." |