Gender issues are present in many of Shakespeare’s plays. Racial difference is a “central” issue in several of his works, most notably Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest. (Bennett 209). Some modern critics see him as representative of the larger concerns British Colonialism present in the nascent British Empire connecting it to the […]
Tag Archives: The Tempest
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Oct
Oct
Last April, while I was in France, Martinique-born French poet/politician Aimé Césaire died and had a public funeral. I was a bit surprised at the state funeral by President Nicolas Sarkozy, whom Césaire had refused to meet when he was alive. I was more surprised that Césaire was not already dead, as the other founder […]
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William Shakespeare’s The Tempest incorporates an array of different characters, conflicts, themes, and other literary tools in its development as a play. The play’s island setting, however, is vital to the framework of the play as a whole, creating the foundation for these literary elements. The island, with its many features, can be viewed as […]