ALONSO, King of Naples

FERDINAND, son to the King of Naples

SEBASTIAN, his brother

PROSPERO, the rightful Duke of Milan

ANTONIO, his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan

GONZALO, an honest old counsellor

ADRIAN and FRANCISCO, lords

STEPHANO, Alonso's drunken butler

TRINCULO, a jester

MASTER of a ship

BOATSWAIN

MARINERS

CALIBAN, a savage and deformed slave

MIRANDA, his daughter

ARIEL, an airy spirit and Prospero's attendant

IRIS

CERES

JUNO

NYMYPHS

REAPERS

Spirits

SCENE: On a ship at sea; afterwards on an uninhabited island.