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Prospero

American  
[pros-puh-roh] / ˈprɒs pəˌroʊ /

noun

  1. (in Shakespeare'sThe Tempest ) the exiled Duke of Milan, who is a magician.


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“He obviously still believes it’s a special place,” said Franklin, co-founder of Prospero Wealth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

As Weaver's Prospero declaimed "Come forth, I say," Hayley sprang from her seat and rushed the stage with Richard Weir, a 60-year-old mechanical engineer from Tyneside.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2025

We’ve all been given a shocking lesson in the “baseless fabric of this vision” we call reality but which Prospero recognizes is no more solid than a dream.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2025

In 2012, Isherwood called him “commandingly grave” in John Patrick Shanley’s play “Storefront Church,” and in 2015, Laura Collins-Hughes described his performance as Prospero in “The Tempest” as “moving” and “understated.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023

If the sun had been shining, it would have been a spectacle, like something Prospero might conjure up.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

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