Title page THE TEMPEST. A COMEDY, by SHAKESPEARE. AS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, Regulated from the PROMPT-BOOK, With PERMISSION of the MANAGERS, By Mr. HOPKINS, Prompter. An INTRODUCTION, and NOTES CRITICAL and ILLUSTRATIVE, ARE ADDED BY THE AUTHORS of the DRAMATIC CENSOR. LONDON: Printed for JOHN BELL, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand; and C. Etherington, at York. MDCCLXXIII.

INTRODUCTION. The following dramatic romance, for so it should certainly be titled, is an odd, improbable, yet agreeable mixture; though sense attacks it with severe strictures. Some fine sentiments scattered up and down through high-finished characters, Prospero, Miranda, and Caliban; with the occasional aid of music and machinery, render it pleasing. Of Shakespeare's original we may say, it is more nervous and chaste, but not so well supplied with humour or business, as Dryden's; making the sailors get drunk, instead of the landmen, is highly characteristic; as the former must be supposed much less affected by a shipwreck, than the latter; therefore more ready to indulge in excess. At the conclusion of the alteration, there is a masque very well introduced; and upon the whole, we are of opinion, that by properly blending, as in Lear, a better piece than either, might be produced.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

Other Spirits, attending on Prospero [Juno].

[Master], [Mariners]

Drury-Lane.
Alonso,	Mr. Bransby.
Sebastian,	Mr. Keen.
Prospero,	Mr. Packer.
Anthonio [Antonio],	Mr. Hurst.
Ferdinand,	Mr. Vernon.
Gonzalo,	Mr. J. Aickin.
Francisco,	Mr. Griffith.
Caliban,	Mr. Ackman.
Trinculo,	Mr. Baddeley.
Stephano,	Mr. Love.
Boatswain,	Mr. Wrighten.
Miranda,	Mrs. Smith.
Ariel,	Mrs. Scot.
Hymen, Spirit.	Mr. Kear.
Ceres, Spirit.	Mrs. Wrighten.
Reapers,

SCENE, an uninhabited Island.

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