Land And Power

Question 1

Cheviot, John McGrath, 1974

Answer 1

"For these are my mountains/
And this is my glen/
The braes of my childhood/
Will see me again"
(McGrath 2015)

Question 2

The Tempest, Shakespeare, early 1600s

Answer 2

“This island’s mine by Sycorax my mother,/
Which thou tak’st from me”
(Shakespeare 2008)

Question 3

Gold, Land and Labor: Ideologies of Colonization and Rewriting The Tempest in 1622, Rita Banerjee, 2013

Answer 3

“the very act of settlement makes [Prospero] dependent on the Islanders’ labour power. He has enslaved Caliban, who supplies his material needs… The spirit, Ariel, performs supernatural and magical services for him”

(Banerjee 2013)

Question 4

Cheviot 2

Answer 4

“Don’t think we are greedy for personal gain/
What profit we capture we plough back again/
We don’t want big houses or anything grand/
We just want more money to buy up more land”
(McGrath 2015)

Question 5

David Bradby and Susanna Capon, 2014, Freedom’s Pioneer: John McGrath’s Work in Theatre, Film and Television

Answer 5

He searched for “radical alternatives to established cultural practices. His revolutionary vision encompassed every aspect of life”
(Bradby and Capon 2014)

Question 6

Tempest 2

Answer 6

“Dost thou forget/
From what torment I did free thee?”
(Shakespeare 2008)