ENGL 2P82 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Power Politics
2 Dec 2016
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Last play shakespeare is the sole author. Theme of divine providence: how it emerges through time in the tempest. Amount of time dramatized by play is around most of time it takes to perform the play. Would have defended more sophisticated audience members. Shakespeare having fun with play"s compliance of neoclassical compliance. Narrative begins 12 years as dramatized before the play. A lot of speaking, very little action. Miranda is propero"s main audience in this scene. She knows nothing of the past, needs to know the backstory as much as we do. Miranda is audience"s surrogate in the scene. Dost thou attend me he asks if she"s listening. Tempest conforms to neoclassical united of time, place and action, whereas other romances (wt) defy those rules, or proceed in other indifference to them. Structurally and thematically more linked to comedy than to romance. Mm explores this by contrasting two ruler figures. Find acting essential to their pursuit of power.
