@sdeutsch: Actor Charlton Heston invoked the name of Prospero in his address to his fans, when he informed them that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. He is part of that he said from those prepared remarks:
“William Shakespeare, at the end of his career wrote his farewell through the words of Prospero in “The Tempest.” It ends like this:
“Be cheerful, Sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
“Thank you, and God bless you, every one.”
The transcript of his entire farewell address, can be found here.