Critics Flashcards
Ania Loomba
Prospero’s takeover is both racial plunder and a transfer to patriarchy
John Dryden
“His language is as hobgoblin as his person”
“He has all the discontents and malice of a witch, and of a devil”
Anthony Miller
“Prospero has the marks of a colonial ruler, but he has not settled on his island voluntarily, and he leaves it at the first opportunity”
“Caliban’s conduct is a result of a cultural encounter in which he is at a disadvantage”
Matt Simpson
“We feel that Prospero, too, has been forgiven; has served his span of time in limbo”
“Both the neglectful duke and the Machiavellian king have virtuous children who will redeem them and dissolve enmity”
Shakespeare thus seems to “inscribe hope in the younger generation”
Anthony Harris
“as damnable as the blackest witchcraft, and his only hope of salvation lies in their renunciation and a return to a life of prayer and faith in the forgiveness and mercy of God”
Thomas McFarland
“Invested with the powers of a god…the perfect island does exist, and God…exists there also”
“a golden world; a place of social harmony where evil is defeated”
Sam Brunner
“The play is unrealistic, demanding our imaginative projection into a world free from the constraints of reality”
Ian Johnston
“The one great success of the play is the marriage of Miranda and Ferdinand”
“The most complex change within the play takes place in Prospero himself”
Andrew GReen
“Through magic and the control of characters, Prospero takes on an almost sadistic quality”
Frank Kermode
“Prospero’s arts are not only beneficient magic in contrast to an evil one…[but are] the means of grace”
“Renaissance MAgus”
“Miranda is inexperience, but not naive, educated but more candid than another young might be”
Diana Devlin
“It has been virtually impossible to dissociate the drama from the discovery of the new world and the colonisation of the Americas”
Saunders
“The absurdly aggressive behaviour of Antonio and Sebastian makes Prospero’s exercise of power seem necessary”
Madeleine Doran
concerned with “Prospero’s discovery of his own ethic of forgiveness, and renunciation of his magic powers”
Diana Devlin
Caliban’s receptiveness to the island expresses a spirituality above base humanity”
Anyone
It is significantly when he learns the ways of men and takes the bottle that he is diminished
