The Duke of Milan is marooned in this play that was inspired by the 1609 wreck of an English ship off Bermuda
When Shakespeare lived in London in the late 1500's, England was a 
rich and .... Prospero, a sorcerer and the rightful Duke of Milan, dwells on an 
enchanted isle ... Events of 1609 the shipwreck and its aftermath: In writing The 
Tempest,.