Who is Gonzalo from A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, Adaptation for a Black Theatre and what is their importance? "A_Tempest:_Based_on_Shakespeare's_The_Tempest

Gonzalo is Alonso's counselor who aids Prospero when they are exiled to the Island by providing them with food, clothes, books and Prospero's instruments. He is shipwrecked on the Island and praises Prospero's generosity in offering forgiveness to the nobles if they repent of their crimes against him.