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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM

THE BEQUEST OF EVERT JANSEN WENDFE 1918

13486.119.36

JOHN K. CHAPMAN AND COMPANY, 5, SHOE LANE, AND PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET STREET.

DRAMATIS PERSONE.

ALONSO, (King of Naples).

SEBASTIAN, (his brother)

Mr. COOPER.

Mr. RAYMOND.

PROSPERO, (the rightful Duke of Milan) Mr. CHARLES KEAN

ANTONIO, (his brother, the usurping} Mr. J. F. CATHCART.

Duke of Milan)

FERDINAND, (Son to the King of Naples) Miss BUFTON.

Mr. PAULO.

STEPHANO, (a Drunken Butler).... Mr. FRANK MATTHEWS. BOATSWAIN,

Master of a Ship and Mariners.

MIRANDA, (Daughter to Prospero) Miss CARLOTTA LECLERCQ.

Nymphs, Spirits, attending on Prospero, &c., &c.

SCENE- The Sea, with a Ship; afterwards an
Uninhabited Island.

THE SCENERY Painted by Mr. GRIEVE and Mr. TELBIN,

Assisted by Mr. W. GORDON, Mr. F. LLOYDS,

Mr. CUTHBERT, Mr. DAYES, Mr. MORRIS, &c., &c. THE MUSIC under the direction of Mr. J. L. HATTON. THE DANCES by Mr. OSCAR BYRN.

THE DECORATIONS & APPOINTMENTS by Mr. E. W. BRADWELL.

THE DRESSES by Mrs. and Miss HOGGINS.

THE MACHINERY by Mr. G. HODSDON.

PERRUQUIER, Mr. ASPLIN, of No. 13, New Bond Street.

For reference to Historical Authorities indicated by
Letters, see end of each Act.

PREFACE.

"The Tempest, and the Midsummer Night's Dream, are the noblest efforts of that sublime and amazing imagination peculiar to Shakespeare, which soars above the bounds of nature without forsaking sense; or more properly, carries nature along with him beyond her established limits." Such are the words of one of our poet's most learned commentators, Doctor Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester, conveying a true estimate of the genius which conceived and constructed the play of The Tempest. This wonderful drama-this bright creation of a sportive fancy which peoples the air with sylphs and spirits— may be said to symbolize, almost as much as a historical play, a definite period in the world's annals.

During the century that followed the first revelation of a new hemisphere to the eyes of astonished Europe, the mind of man was repeatedly excited by the announcement of fresh wonders. The inspired perseverance of Columbus had awakened a spirit not to be extinguished, and the names of Vasco de Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, Sebastian Cabot, Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh, and other bold navigators, remain