The Tempest

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English

 

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Bernard W

 

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January 27, 2013

 

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University

 

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A

 

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7 / 1891

 

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For over a century, and particularly in the past twenty years, one of the more popular approaches to The Tempest is the influence of colonialism and it's representation in Shakespeare's last play. In 1818 the English critic, William Hazlitt, was the first to actually point out that Prospero had usurped Caliban from his position of rule on the island, therefore placing Prospero in the role of an agent of imperialism (T...
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Vaughan). Caliban's character is thus identified as the European symbol of the colonized. Since Hazlitt's first account of supposed colonialism, the theme has remained more or less a mainstream theory, albeit a slippery one. In exploring the influence of European colonialism on the play, many critics place much of their attention on the events surrounding European colonization of the "New World" in Jamestown, Virginia that occurred around 1607...
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