Prospero
Americannoun
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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
But in this late romance, as Shakespeare critic Anne Barton has pointed out, Prospero remains in character, courteously asking the audience for release from the island so that he can return to his dukedom.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2025
But Prospero is jolted into an awareness that Caliban and his confederates are plotting “a foul conspiracy” against his life, and he abruptly ends the show.
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
Many of them comment that the senders were unaware that the great Prospero had a daughter.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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