Look at Shakespeare's language. He creates "spaces" by using specific and purposeful diction. He introduces us to the world of a storm tossed ship through phrases such as "Fall to 't yarely" (pg 7) and "Down with the topmast!" (pg. 9). Next we are taken to a mediterranean island, where Prospero and Miranda have been living for 12 years. The island "space" is created with words such as "urchins," "fresh springs," "brine pits" and "cell" (pg. 37). But we also learn about that "space" that father and daughter once lived 12 years ago in Milan. Miranda had "four or five women" tending to her and Prospero was a "prince of power."
We also learn tidbits about each character as he/she is introduced. We do not learn all about them at once, rather, Shakespeare gradually introduces them by starting with a little bit about their past. Antonio ("the ivy which had hid [Prospero's] princely trunk" pg.19), Ariel (once servant to witch Sycorax and after refusing to perform her commands was imprisoned in a cloven pine for 12 years pg. 31), Caliban (son of Sycorax styed up in a hard rock after trying to "violate the honor" of Miranda (pg.37), Ferdinand who "carries a brave form" and believes his father, the King of Naples, is "wracked" (45) and Gonzalo who "out of charity" supplied Prospero and Miranda with "garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries" when thet were sent to sea (p. 23).
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