Ariel
In The Tempest, Ariel is the sprite freed by the magician Prospero. Usually interpreted as male.
- Prospero:
- Thou shalt be free
- As the mountain winds
- But then exactly do
- All the points of my command.
- Ariel:
- To the syllable.
More Ariel
Ariel in Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb, 1922.
Ariel by Eva K. Martyir, in the Elfwood Gallery, 2003.
Ariel sings:
- Where the bee sucks,
- there suck I:
- There I couch
- when owls do cry,
- On a bat's back
- I do fly
- After summer merrily.
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Ariel by Henry Fuseli, c. 1800-10. Oil on canvas, approx. 36.5 " x 28 ". The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. | Ariel in An Illustrated Shakspere Birthday Book, 1883, published by George Routledge and Sons, London, New York. |
Ariel's song continues:
Ariel by F. Miller, 1850, engraving on wood. |  |
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