Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. There are lots of characters in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. Take an in-depth look at the main ones identifying ...

In Writer, Producer, and Director Julie Taymor's version of "The Tempest", the main character is now a woman named Prospera (Dame Helen Mirren). Going back to the sixteenth or seventeenth century ...

Various plots against the main characters fail thanks to the magic of Prospero. The play ends with all the plotters repenting the Tempest is calmed.