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Miranda (Shakespeare)

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Miranda and the Tempest (1916) by John William Waterhouse

In Shakespeare's play The Tempest, Miranda is the beautiful daughter of the old Duke Prospero.

Miranda is a naive 15-year-old girl. She and her father were cast away by her uncle Antonio who wanted the throne and has been on a deserted island since she was three. Her father Prospero sends Ariel, his spirit servant, to fetch Ferdinand and arranges things so that the two will come to love one another.

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Miranda with Prospero by William Maw Egley