Tempest Critics

• Van Dijkhuizen


  "Caliban, initially branded as the ultimate Evil other, is acknowledged as part of Prospero's own identity"
• Van Dijkhuizen


  "Prospero's' noble rational magic, is contrasted to the black sorcery practiced by Sycorax"
• Smith


  "If this Prospero is Shakespeare we wouldn't like Shakespeare
• Thompson(miranda)


  "various patterns of exploitation"
• Loomba (miranda)


  "property to be exchanged between father and husband"
• Ledingham


  "Prospero is not affected by the narrative; he is the narrative."
• Van Dijkhuizen


  "Prospero and Caliban come to occupy similar positions towards the end of the play"
• Orgel


  "Prospero's anger represents the 'immitigable rage' of Sycorax"
• Vickers


  "Shakespeare is not a colonist, nor is Prospero"
• Willis


  "The plays threatening other is not Caliban but Antonio"
• Todd


  "Alonso emerges from the experience as purified and repentant"
• Adams


  "Stephano and Trinculo are comic and incompetent"
• Kermode


  "Miranda is inexperienced but not naive"
• Todd


  "Only Caliban's body is enslaved"
• Miller


  "Caliban is demoralised, detribalised and dispossessed"
• sanchez


  "Ariel's adoption of female costume portrays the feminine compliance that Prospero demands"
• McFarland


  "Gonzalo is a speaker of a certain truth"
• Montaigne


  "marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those on the inside desperate to get out"
• Ann Thompson


  "what kind of pleasure can a woman and a feminist take in this text beyond the rather grim one of mapping its various patterns of exploitation?"
• Lindley


  "Ariel is the swiftness of thought personified, the embodiment of imaginary power"
• Coleridge


  "An elemental spirit robbed of freedom and tortured by the loss"