The Tempest

Though this work is called a comedy, by today's standard it is not exactly one.  It is humorous, if only for the strangeness of it all, but there are no wisecracking jokesters or loveable goofballs.  But once you get involved in the storyline, it doesn't matter anymore.  although this play may not be the one people immediately think of when it comes to Shakespeare, some of the most quoted lines have come out of it.  Aldous Huxley, famed author of Brave New World, has quoted him, even the title comes from a line in The Tempest.  This is the story of Prospero, right Duke of Milan, exiled to an island by his usurper brother and King with his daughter, Miranda.  There he becomes Lord, and commands the spirits of the air and the creature of the earth he finds living there, Caliban. In this short comedy, he seeks to remedy the situation which rendered him far from Naples, so many years before. 

"O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O, brave new world
That has such people in 't!"