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  • I find significance even in the fact that Ariel wants his freedom “a full year” before the term Prospero had originally proposed.

    The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

  • I find significance even in the fact that Ariel wants his freedom "a full year" before the term Prospero had originally proposed.

    The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893

  • In the original, Prospero is the Duke of Milan, so preoccupied with his library of magical books that he fails to notice his brother's plot to usurp him.

    First look: Helen Mirren in lead role in Julie Taymor's 'Tempest' 2010

  • A beautifully original handling of a classic tale, Miranda's enthralling quest to find and save her father, the renowned wizard Prospero, is fraught with danger and surprises, taking her to the ends of the world and beyond.

    New Blurbs -- Coolation! arhyalon 2008

  • His last major film role was in Prospero’s Books (1991), based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

    Five People Born on April 14 | myFiveBest 2010

  • Hi Kwame – Your comment about Prospero is really at the heart of Auden’s inquiry in his poem “The Sea and the Mirror” as well as his lectures on Shakespeare.

    Frivolity : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • If Stewart's "rough magic" is at times too rough for the play's supernal poetry, his Prospero is a man, not a mystic.

    Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On 2008

  • His Prospero was a demented stage manager on a theatrical island, suspended between smouldering rage at his usurpation and unbridled glee at his alternative ethereal power.

    The Guardian World News Michael Coveney 2011

  • That's why I'm happy to say that a new restaurant called Prospero is moving in.

    Buffalo Rising 2009

  • Sir August de Wynter was associated with a next generation climate engineering project called The Prospero Project.

    CircleID 2009

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