The TempestPan Macmillan, 13.06.2019 - 160 Seiten The Tempest is Shakespeare's masterpiece of magical effects, redemptive romance, poetry and politics. |
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... Prospero, the usurped Duke of Milan, cast upon an island with his infant daughter Miranda, has, after years of study, mastered not only the island but nature itself. Finding that his enemies are in the vicinity, he uses his magical ...
... Prospero's machinations – with the whole island at his service, and his magical powers, he has all the cards in his hands – and therefore no suspense in the conventional sense. The only questions are how exactly Prospero will carry out ...
... Prospero standing for Shakespeare himself; in the 20th and early 21st centuries the play has often been seen as a savage statement about colonialism and Empire. There is, of course, no obligation on anyone's part to offer a definitive ...
... Prospero has raised. We all know, in fact, that Prospero is a sort of magician. But Shakespeare's plays are so carefully, so precisely constructed that it is unwise for either the reader or the actor to glide over the details. This ...
... Prospero has real power over the elements. Neither for Shakespeare nor for his audience did this suggest anything either fraudulent or necessarily transgressive. Just as travellers and explorers were discovering that nature took many ...