Shakespeare seems to have retired from his busy playwriting career after he wrote The Tempest, although he is believed to have collaborated with other people on at least two plays later on (neither of which is very good). As a result, many people interpret The Tempest as being, at least in part, a symbolic celebration of the magic of theater, and a farewell present from a great playwright to his audience. Since the play's central character, Prospero, is an aging magician who gives up his magic at the play's conclusion, many people read him as a stand-in for Shakespeare himself.

The Tempest is one of the last plays Shakespeare ever wrote for the stage. It was probably written around the year 1611, and is likely to have been performed in court that year as part of the celebration surrounding the

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