Prospero

[ pros-puh-roh ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

The most important element that Prospero’s speech neglects is that even under no-design laws, resilience can be achieved.

From Nautilus

Those very words in Prospero’s speech are an example of our literary heritage, and they have survived—together with countless other wondrous outputs of human intellectual activity.

From Nautilus

Contrary to Prospero’s view, palaces, temples, and cloud-capped towers can achieve resilience—because they are products of civilization.

From Nautilus

If we take these other facts into consideration, we see that Prospero’s pessimistic tone and conclusion are misplaced.

From Nautilus

Prospero’s gloomy conclusion is partial and profoundly misguided.

From Nautilus

The close of the overture should describe how Prospero renounces his spells, blesses the lovers, and returns to his country.

From Project Gutenberg

In the introduction I picture it to myself as calm, until Prospero works his spell and the storm begins.

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Her conversation with Prospero, and immediately afterwards with Ferdinand, who fascinates her, and with whom she falls in love.

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He is introduced under the name of Prospero in Dibdin's Bibliomania.

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Miranda having been awakened, was invited by Prospero to visit his slave Caliban, son of Sycorax, then dead.

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