This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with an introduction by Martin Butler. ‘How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t!’A storm rages. Prospero, his daughter Miranda, and his monstrous servant Caliban watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family is wrecked. Miraculously, all on board survive. Plotting, mistaken identities, bewitching love and drunkenness follow as the travellers explore the strange place of spirits and monsters on which they have landed. They soon begin to realize all is not as it seems,