Critics Flashcards
Vaughan - ‘The play is a celebration…
… of restored monarchy and affirmation that monarchy is the natural form of government’
Vaughan - ‘Caliban creates…
… our pity more than detestaion’
Daniel Wilson - ‘While on one hand…
… Caliban is human, he is also an animal, at home among the sounds and scenes of living nature’
Daniel Wilson - ‘Even though it consists…
… of three plots, each culminating in a masque-like spectacle […] events stay under Prospero’s control and are clearly related to each other’
Daniel Wilson - ‘The Tempest’s storm…
… symbolises as dislocated world order, and the characters undergo a form of madness as part of the transition from lost to restoration’
Voigts - ‘The play has come…
… to be seen as a metaphor for the theatre’
Voigts- ‘Caliban first became…
… a crucial character in this discussion when the Romantics inaugurated his reading as a ‘noble savage’ ‘
Cherry - ‘The play is structured…
… around the eminence of royal power and social hierarchy, which are both challenged by Caliban, who symbolises rebellion and disorder’
Cherry - ‘Caliban is a…
… lonely, dispossessed slave’
Rufo - ‘The plays central action…
… with Prospero as it’s executor, is not simply revenge. The Tempest foregrounds the theme of restoration against a backdrop of political disorder’
Rufo - ‘Prospero seems…
… to have learnt very little about human nature’
Hirst - ‘The Tempest is a play…
… about power’
Cherry - ‘Miranda and Ferdinand’s…
… marriage is orchestrated by Prospero for his own political ends’
