ENGL 4723 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Narration, Main Plot, Shrew
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Tempest previous elements. people who have already died. Usurped rule took control of remote island, usurped from caliban. Exploration and raiding for elizabeth (australia is prison colony). Seen as one of shakespeare"s best plays romances where he figures out how to use all of the element: new world, age of discovery, relationship between )taly and africa, (cid:883)(cid:887)9(cid:882)"s-(cid:883)(cid:888)(cid:883)(cid:882)"s and ariel, (cid:498)savage,(cid:499) alien culture was caliban"s island when prospero arrived. Savvy shakespeare, naturally evolving questions he doesn"t have to ask explicitly. Shipwreck didn"t really happen, duped into thinking it happened entire. Art: miranda introduces it in realm of magic and casting spells. (good writer can create a spell scene about it, staged. Usurpation of reader, writer takes away from us our actual understanding, transferred from characters to readers. Prospero, ariel, people on ship, miranda and ferdinand, then people on ship have performed usurpation. over a reader, follow along without question or hesitation). Shakespeare does what he does, notion of art.
