Overview
Character Name
Antonio
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Dramatic Function
Antagonist, Foil
Relationships
Voice
Non-singer
Time & Place
Ship, Mediterranean Island, Renaissance
Analysis
Antonio is Prospero’s conspiratorial younger brother who, with the King of Naples’ help, usurped Prospero’s dukedom and exiled him from Milan. Antonio and Sebastian (the King of Naples’ brother and a fellow shipwrecked passenger) are near mirror images of one another: both
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