Ariel doesn’t have a close relationship to other characters in the play and is often invisible to the other characters. In Shakespeare’s day, people believed that sprites and fairies were real.

Prospero and Miranda live in a cave on the island which is also inhabited a sprite named Ariel and the monstrous Caliban. It is revealed that Alonso was partly to blame for Prospero losing his ...

The shipwrecked sailors find a magical feast laid before them, but before any can enjoy Ariel, a spirit, appears as a Harpy to wreak havoc on those who bear evil towards Prospero. King Alonso ...

With Ariel she uses both their powers to raise ... thought to be one of the last plays that William Shakespeare authored alone, with incidental music for the play by Finland’s Jean Sibelius ...

Details of Shakespeare programming on BBC Radio for ... It is in the listeners’ imaginations that the island, Caliban, Ariel and the beautifully magical plot can realise their full potential.