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Vintage painting of Prospero in `The Tempest` #182261146
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Social history. 1940s The New Book of Knowledge by The Waverley Book Company Ltd. Prospero is a fictional character of William Shakespeare`s play The Tempest. Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan, whose usurping brother, Antonio, had put him with his three-year-old daughter, Miranda to sea on a `rotten carcass` of a boat to die, twelve years before the play begins. Prospero and Miranda had survived and found exile on a small island. He has learned sorcery from books, and uses it while on the island to protect Miranda and control the other characters. Before the play, Prospero frees the spirit Ariel from entrapment within `a cloven pine`.
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