[a] punk-haired Ariel in a rainbow-hued body stocking

Act and Scene
Credit
Michael Billington, Guardian
Date
1982
Copyright
©

an Ariel who alters the balance of power … His quality is a preternatural stillness … wear[ing] a mandarin’s silk suit ... he steps lightly on bare feet as if soundlessness were second nature.

Act and Scene
Credit
Kate Kellaway, Observer
Date
1993
Copyright
©

a leprechaun recently emerged from cold storage

Act and Scene
Credit
SJ, Liverpool Evening Post
Date
1957
Copyright
©

...as near naked as makes no odds, with his mysterious music and dignified mien... a figure straight off a Greek vase, or from an Etruscan tomb, or from William Blake.

Act and Scene
Credit
WS, Gloucester Citizen
Date
1970
Copyright
©

Prospero's two servants [appear] as alter egos … dressed in identical loin clothes, the one mud-encrusted, the other shining white, as though representing the physical and spiritual sides of humanity.

Act and Scene
Credit
Terry Grimley, Birmingham Post
Date
1998
Copyright
©

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