A05

Question 1

Nuttal - on the pastoral play form

Answer 1

‘usual thesis of pastoral play…life as a shepherd is better than life at court where flattery poisons all’

Question 2

Todd - the island setting

Answer 2

‘microcosm for the world at large’

Question 3

Barbara Bleiman: Prospero & Miranda’s relationship

Answer 3

‘not the typical father daughter relationship dynamic’
- Miranda = transgressive & subversive

Question 4

Vaughan : Miranda and trad. femininity

Answer 4

‘Miranda is not as meek & submissive as often portrayed’

Question 5

Keith Linley on fatherhood and kingship

Answer 5

‘flawed kingship & flawed fatherhood’

Question 6

Mcevoy on P and metatheatre

Answer 6

‘Prospero is a stage director…’

Question 7

Gibson: Ariel as a servant

Answer 7

‘presents a Eurocentric view of colonisation’

Question 8

Leininger on Miranda’s sexuality

Answer 8

Miranda as ‘sexual bait’

Question 9

Hazlitt on the relationship of M & F

Answer 9

‘Very purity of love’

Question 10

Mcevoy on Caliban (postcolonial perspective)

Answer 10

‘savage…a product of violent enslavement’

Question 11

Lindley on the type of play this is

Answer 11

‘an aborted revenge tragedy’

Question 12

Brett on M’s commodification

Answer 12

‘her femininity becomes an extremely valuable commodity.

Question 13

Montaigne on barbarism

Answer 13

‘Barbarous behaviour is not determined by ethnicity’

Question 14

Good on Antonio’s morality/immorality

Answer 14

‘typically Machiavellian pretender’

Question 15

Some critics on reoccurring themes in the play

Answer 15

‘highly patterned play’