Miranda (The Tempest)

This article is about the character from the Shakespearean play The Tempest. For other uses, see Miranda (disambiguation).

Miranda
The Tempest character
Painting showing Miranda observing the wreck of the King's ship
John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), Miranda—The Tempest. 1916.
Created byWilliam Shakespeare
In-universe information
FamilyProspero (father)
Prince Ferdinand (husband)
Antonio (uncle)
Alonso, King of Naples (father-in-law)

Miranda is one of the principal characters of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. She is the only female character to appear on stage.

Miranda is the daughter of Prospero, another of the main characters of The Tempest. She was banished to the Island along with her father at age three, and in the subsequent twelve years has lived with her father and their slave, Caliban, as her only company. She is openly compassionate and unaware of the evils of the world that surrounds her, learning of her father's fate only as the play begins.