Tempest AO5

• Vaughn - contemporary/traditional 


  'The play was considered safe and appropriate to perform before the King.'
• Aurberlen - 18th century


  'Affirmation that the monarchy is the natural form of government.'
• Wilson - 19th century

  'The link between brute and man.'
• Vaughn - 19th century


  'Embodied the central ideologies of Social Darwinism and British Imperialism.'
• Dowden - early 20th century


  'There is always a reconciliation.'
• Wilson - early 20th century


  'Conclusion of joyful atonement and forgiveness.'
• Greenblatt - new historicist


  'Threat and punishment, as well as pardon, were strategies of control designed to reinforce the monarch as an all-powerful figure.'
• Breight - new historicist


  'Magic for a more straightforward mechanism of political control.'
• Charry - post colonial


  'Helped perpetuate colonial ideology.'
• Hawkes - post colonial


  'The colonist imposes the shape of his own culture on the new world.'
• Hulme - post colonial


  'Prospero's magic can be equated with the coloniser's technology.'
• Loomba - post colonial


  'Prospero consolidates his power by delegitimising her (Sycorax).'
• Brett - feminist


  'Miranda apparent freedom is entirely illusionary.'
• Singh - feminist


  'The exchange of women to solidify male socio-political bonds.'
• Thompson - feminist


  'Submissive and condemned to perpetual obedience to men (Miranda).'
• Sebek - feminist


  'Doesn't submit to the circuits of exchange where women simply become commodities.'
• Charry - feminist


  'Miranda is to be wondered at and admired but ultimately used and exploited.'
• RSC 2016 - Miranda


  Outspoken, confident, self-empowered.
• Miller 1970's - Caliban


  Black slave
• The Globe 2013 - Caliban


  Devil horns and maniacal laughter.
• Carroll 2005 - Prospero


  Play opens with him playing game of chess.
• Goold 2006 - Caliban 


  A strong wild man in shackles.
• Mendes 1993 - Ariel


  Wildly swinging, very dominant force.
• Brook 1957 - Prospero


  Obsessive and brooding.