Critical Soundbites

• Caliban:

  ‘Created a person which is not in nature’

  — John Dryden, English Poet, Critic, and Dramatist
• Prospero:

  ’An anxiety about the legitimacy of his own power’

  — Brinda Charry in her book The Tempest Language and Writing
• Prospero:

  ’An illusionist … revealing the tricks of his trade‘

  • Barbara A Mowat
  • Prospero, Agrippa and Hocus Pocus
  • Author and Director of academic programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library
• Ariel:

  ‘Personified genius of the wonderful fable’

  • August Wilhelm Schlegel
  • German Poet Critic and Translator
• Miranda:

  ’Submissive and condemned to perpetual obedience to men’

  • Anne Thompson
  • Essay ‘Miranda Where is Your Sister?
  • American Journalist
• Miranda:

  ‘Wonderful and admired but ultimately used and exploited’

  • Brinda Charry
  • The Tempest Language and Writing