THE PERMEABILITY OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS: TEMPESTS IN THE CARIBBEAN
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https://doi.org/10.18305/scripta%20uniandra.v14i2.633Resumo
In 2016, the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare has provided opportunities for scholars, who have been working for years on performance and the Caribbean, to present a revision of the Bard’s view of colonization. Of all his plays, The Tempest is the one that has been most frequently restaged in terms of the colonial/postcolonial relationship. I will explore Caribbean visions of the master-slave relationship in George Lamming’s The Pleasures of Exile (1960) and Water with Berries (1971) alongside Aimé Césaire’s Une Têmpete (1969), and show how these writers reinterpret the political relationships between Prospero and Caliban from a Caribbean Caliban’s perspective, as well as the transformation of Prospero into Columbus in the Cuban play Otra Tempestad (Another Tempest) by Raquel Carrió and Flora Lauten (1997) and their vision of how the concept of island works.
KEYWORDS: Shakespeare. The Tempest. Caribbean. Decolonization. Postcolonialism.
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