SHAKESPEARE's The Tempest and the Allegories of Colonialism

This episode will be using Shakespeare’s The Tempest to explore a variety of questions to do with colonialism, resistance, and the relationship between Nature, artifice, and ideology as demonstrated in the play. A central focus will be on the ways in which the play allows us to think productively about the forms of colonial space-making that inextricably connected the idea of governance those of beauty and proportion, thus also suggesting a hierarchy between the beautiful and the ugly as subjects of colonialism. Caliban’s famous rebelliousness will be contrasted to Ariel’s pliant obsequiousness to show how each of them is produced through forms of colonial ideology that is masked in the language of Nature. Some suggested readings are also listed below.

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Suggested Reading:

- Peter Fryer, Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain, 1984.

- Stephen Greenblatt, “Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the Sixteenth Century,” in Learning to Curse: Essays in Modern English Culture, 1990

- Stephen Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World, 1991.
- Kim F. Hall, Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England, 1995.

-Jeffrey Knapp, An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from ‘Utopia’ to ‘The Tempest’, 1992.