Understanding The Tempest
@article{Pierce1999UnderstandingTT, title={Understanding The Tempest}, author={R. B. Pierce}, journal={New Literary History}, year={1999}, volume={30}, pages={373 - 388} }
Some years ago I wrote an article1 on Shakespeare's The Tempest in which I gave a reading that was quite sympathetic to Prospero and Miranda. I tried in that article to express an important part of my understanding of the play at that time, and I would still stand behind what I then said. On the other hand, I find much that is appealing and persuasive in a series of New Historical and anticolonialist readings of the play,2 which tend to be not at all sympathetic to Prospero and if anything to…
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