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The Tempest Summary - Introduction

This Revision Bite will give you a general summary of The Tempest.

You need to know the basic plot then work out what the people in the play are like, and how they get along. You should also think about how actors should perform the play to an audience, and the main 'big' topics - such as love, time, truth - that it deals with.

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