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The TempestArtistic Images from the Play
Review the pages of this PowerPoint to see artistic depictions of Shakespeare’s characters. Is this how you
imagined them?
Image by Henry Fuseli of "Ariel." Image source: http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illus
trated/Fuseli.Ariel.html
Image of Miranda by Frederick Goodall. Image source -
http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Goodall.Miranda.html
Image of Ariel by F. Miller. Image source: http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakesp
eare_Illustrated
This painting depicts Act II, Scene i, of The Tempest when Ariel prevents the murder of Alonso, the King of Naples, and his advisor Gonzalo by Antonio and Sebastian. Image source: http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated
This image by William Hogarth depicts a scene from The Tempest. Image Source:
http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated
This scene, with its impressive seascape and wind-whipped waters, we never witness in the The Tempest; the
play opens on board the sinking ship, and we learn that Miranda has witnessed the sinking in Act I, scene ii. Image
Source: http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illustra
ted
Interesting depiction of Caliban. Image source: http://www.folger.edu/imgdtl.cfm?
imageid=2418&cid=3077
James Henry Nixon: The Tempest. Image source: http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/tempest.html