The Tempest opens with a raging storm conjured up by the exiled Duke of Milan, Prospero, who has lived on a remote island with his daughter Miranda for twelve years. A shipwreck scatters his enemies across the island: among them, his treacherous brother Antonio, who stole his dukedom, and King Alonso of Naples, co-conspirator in Prospero’s fall, along with his son, Ferdinand – all pawns in a carefully orchestrated plan.