‘Roger Allam’s Prospero is more worrisome dad than heartless tyrant’ (Jeremy Herrin)
Twenty-first century
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Card 7
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‘Prospero is a good authoritarian Governor who knows how to deal with layabouts.’
(Geoffrey Bullough)
Mid twentieth century
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Card 8
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“Caliban claims he should rule the island because he was born there and should succeed his mother, who was the first inhabitant; Prospero’s claim to govern Caliban is based on his superior nature and education and the argument that Caliban proved his unfi
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Card 9
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‘the tragic and inevitable disintegration of more primitive culture as the result of European invasion and colonisation.’
(Dr Jonathan Miller)
Late twentieth century
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Card 10
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Prospero shoves Caliban forcefully back into a skip at the end, no freedom for him.
(Sam Mendes)
Twenty first century
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Card 11
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‘There’s the smugness of the colonial who presumes that his control is justified by his assumed superiority, but nothing too disturbing’
(Jeremy Herrin)
Twenty first century
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Card 12
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‘the whole play, indeed, is a succession of allusions’
(James Russell Lovell)
Twenty first century x
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Card 13
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‘When the character is a woman, a central relationship in the play, between the magician and her doted-on child, Miranda, sheds some of its traditional, patriarchal dynamic. Instead, a mother-daughter bond fraught with envy, protectiveness and identificat
