Critics Flashcards
‘Miranda is…
passive and controlled, told to “sleep, wake”’
21st century
‘The Tempest holds up a…
mirror to empire’
21st century
(The tempest is) ‘an aborted
revenge tragedy’
21st century
(The tempest is) ‘a Christian allegory…
of forgiveness’
21st century
‘The masque in The Tempest is…
a materialisation of Prospero’s will and power’
21st century
‘Both Ariel and Miranda experience…
love and subordination from Prospero’
21st century
‘The play is structurally…
tidy’
20th century
‘Metamorphosis within the…
self is more deeply satisfying’
20th century
‘Prospero needs Miranda as…
sexual bait’
20th century
Ariel has a ‘childlike
simplicity’
19th century
(Caliban’s) ‘Be not afeard speech’ (presents him as having) ‘the…
simplicity of a child’
19th century
‘The courtship of Miranda and Ferdinand is…
one of the chief beauties of the play. It is the very purity of love’
19th century
(Caliban speaks in)…
‘eloquent poetry’
19th century
(Caliban is) ‘a resister…
of tyranny’
19th century
Argues that Prospero may…
represent Shakespeare
19th century
