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Prospero's Books is a complex tale based upon William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Miranda, the daughter of Prospero, an exiled magician, falls in love with Ferdinand, the son of his enemy; while the sorcerer's sprite, Ariel, convinces him to abandon revenge against the traitors from his earlier life. In the film, Prospero stands in for Shakespeare himself, and is seen writing and speaking the story's action as it unfolds.

Ariel is played by four actors: three acrobats — a boy, an adolescent, and a youth — and a boy singer. Each represents a classical elemental.

The books of Prospero number 24 according to the production design which outlines each volume's content. The list is reminiscent of the lost books of Epicurus.

• John Gielgud as Prospero
• Michael Clark as Caliban
• Michel Blanc as Alonso
• Erland Josephson as Gonzalo
• Isabelle Pasco as Miranda
• Tom Bell as Antonio
• Kenneth Cranham as Sebastian
• Mark Rylance as Ferdinand
• Gerard Thoolen as Adrian
• Pierre Bokma as Francisco
• Jim van der Woude as Trinculo
• Michiel Romeyn as Stephano
• Paul Russell as Ariel
• James Thiérrée as Ariel

Gielgud is quoted as saying that a film of The Tempest (with him as Prospero) was his life's ambition, as he had been in four stage productions in 1931, 1940, 1957, and 1974. He had approached Alain Resnais, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, and Orson Welles about directing him in it, with Benjamin Britten to compose its score, and Albert Finney as Caliban, before Greenaway agreed. The closest earlier attempts came to being made was in 1967, with Welles both directing and playing Caliban. But after the commercial failure of their film collaboration, Chimes at Midnight, financing for a cinematic Tempest collapsed.

The film was screened out of competition at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.

This was the last of the collaborations between director Peter Greenaway and composer Michael Nyman. Most of the film's music cues, (excepting Ariel's songs and the Masque) are from an earlier concert, La Traversée de Paris and the score from A Zed & Two Noughts. The soundtrack album is Nyman's sixteenth release.

Track listing

Performers

Michael Nyman Band

Technical

• Produced by David Cunningham
• Engineer: Michael J. Dutton
• Assistant engineer: Dillon Gallagher (PRT), Chris Brown (Abbey Road Studios)
• Mixed by Michael J. Dutton, Michael Nyman, and David Cunningham at PRT Studios and Abbey Road Studios
• Edited at Abbey Road Studios by Peter Mew
• Art Direction: Ann Bradbeer
• Photography: Marc Guillamot
• Design: Creative Partnership
• Artist representative: Don Mousseau

Aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports 67% approval of Prospero's Books, with an average rating of 5.9/10 and a critical consensus of, "There is no middle ground for viewers of Peter Greenaway's work, but for his fans, P