“There would this monster make a man”: Colonial power in the 1993 RSC production of 'The Tempest'
Taking on assumptions about oppression, identity and representation as they are developed in contemporary postcolonial theory, this study proposes the analysis of the 1993 theatrical production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest by The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). It aims to discuss the r...
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| author | Ramayana Lira de Sousa |
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| description | Taking on assumptions about oppression, identity and representation as they are developed in contemporary postcolonial theory, this study proposes the analysis of the 1993 theatrical production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest by The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). It aims to discuss the role of Caliban's monstrosity in the production and how it pertains to issues such as power relations and spectacle. The main benefit of doing an analysis of a performance of a Shakespearean text seems to be the possibility of seeing the play's meaning as contingent, as a result of a series of elements (actor's body, visual clues, the theatrical institution, spectatorship) that release it from the burden of being considered as the work of a single, universal, non- contradictory mind that contemporary criticism has pointed out as the 'Shakespeare Myth'. I conclude that the 1993 RSC production presents a Tempest that, in many ways, reinforces traditional positions about the legitimacy of Prospero's dominion over the island.
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| title | “There would this monster make a man”: Colonial power in the 1993 RSC production of 'The Tempest' |
| title_full | “There would this monster make a man”: Colonial power in the 1993 RSC production of 'The Tempest' |
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| title_short | “There would this monster make a man”: Colonial power in the 1993 RSC production of 'The Tempest' |
| title_sort | there would this monster make a man colonial power in the 1993 rsc production of the tempest |
| topic | The Tempest Caliban power postcolonial performance |
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