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The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1610-11 and probably the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island where Prospero the rightful Duke of Milan plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm the eponymous tempest to lure his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to the island. There his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio's lowly nature the redemption of the King and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso's son Ferdinand. Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898 based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English poet and playwright widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the Bard of Avon. His extant works including some collaborations consist of about 38 plays 154 sonnets two long narrative poems and a few other verses the authorship of some of which is uncertain. Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.

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