prospero the tempest

• Traditional view


  In historical productions, Prospero is presented as being at the top of the hierarchy which comes with being controlling, powerful and having ownership over the island.
• Modern view


  In modern productions, Prospero is presented as a colonialists and that his power is unjustified and undeserving.
• critics to support traditional view


  Ryan prosperous magic is "directed towards the betterment and reconciliation of those around him"
• critic to support modern view


  Lindley "Prospero is arranged for an obsessive desire to control (Mirandas) sexuality"
• traditional moments

  -the masque

  -prospero protects miranda

  -uses his power to bring his daughter happiness by brining s respectable husband (Ferdinand )

  -final act making the seas calm and restoring natural order.
• modern moments


  -causing/starting the tempest

  -interrupted natural oder by waking the dead, creating storm and breaking down trees.

  -puts his daughter to sleep.

  -summons the harpie (used to scare people)
• traditional productions


  -In the 1667 Dryden and advent production miranda and her newly introduced sister have been deliberately ignorant of anything to do with sex or pregnancy by prospero.

  -Ron Daniels 1982 production of a vital and thrilling prospero who is not fully in control of himself.
• modern productions


  - David Thacker 1995 production permanent present on-stage seated at his desk with his large book open.