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The Empire Writes Back:

The Tempest

Page Index

Click these links to go to the major sub-sections.

• Shakespeare Writes the Empire--The Tempest
  
  
• Caribbean Responses -- authors alphabetized
  
  

Writing the Empire

William Shakespeare (England), The Tempest

• The Tempest--e-text; drama.
• Plot Summary. (Here is an Alternate Plot Summary).
• Study Questions--helpful study aid.
• Lesson Plans: The Tempest --helpful study guide (Introduction, plot summary, class activities, etc.)
• Illinois Shakespeare Festival--imperialist background and various readings of Shakespeare's The Tempest
• New World and Utopian Thought--short introduction to Shakespeare's play.
• National and Colonial Education in Shakespeare's The Tempest --Carey-Webb's scholarly article.
• Ambroise Paré's Des Monstres as a Possible Source for Caliban--Kahan's scholarly article on Shakespeare's The Tempest.
• Shakespeare's Tempest and the American Indian--scholarly article by Louis Proyect.
• The Tempest - Art vs. Nature --good student essay contrasting Shakespeare's Prospero and Caliban; links to other good student essays on Shakespeare's play.
• In This Hard Rock-- interesting student essay on Prospero's and Caliban's linguistic control of "reality"
• "Are We Being Historical Yet?" Colonialist Interpretations of Shakespeare's Tempest-- Schneider's scholarly article questioning the limitations of colonial readings of this play.
• Plantation of this Isle-- Jowett's scholarly article in the Glasgow Review.
• Prospero's Dream: The Tempest and the Court Masque Inverted--Dijkhuizen's scholarly article.
• Tempest 2000 Annotated Bibliography--helpful summaries of several scholarly articles on The Tempest

Caribbean Responses

General

• The Caribbean Tempest --a Bajan production of Shakespeare's play; sound sample available.
• Samaroo's 'Tempus Est': The Earliest Colonial Rewriting of Shakespeare's Play--surreal version from the 1920s; includes summary of feminist and post-colonial readings of Shakespeare's play and an eco-critical reading of Samaroo's version.

Aimé Césaire (Martinique)

• A Tempest (Une Tempete)--e-text; includes Introduction and Act I; selection from Act II; selection from Act III.
• Aimé Césaire--biography.
• Césaire Biography.
• Return to My Native Land-- selection from Césaire's long poem.
• Confronting the Stage: M. Butterfly and A Tempest as Examples of Postcolonial Drama--good student paper.
• Aimé Césaire, Négritude, and the Applications of Surrealism--magazine article with good summary of Césaire's themes.
• Négritude--important concept developed by Césaire and others.
• A Legacy of Greed, Slavery, and Racism--good student essay comparing-contrasting Shakespeare's and Césaire's "Tempests."
• Power and Politics in Une Tempete-- good student essay.
• The Relationship between Colonialism and Shakespeare's The Tempest: An Annotated Bibliography --helpful short summaries of four scholarly articles on Shakespeare's play and one article on Aimé Césaire's Une Tempete.

Kamau Brathwaite (Barbadoes)

• "Stone/for Mikey Smith 1954-1983/stoned to death on Stony Hill, Kingston"--e-text; poem.
• South--e-text; poem.
• Calypso--e-text; poem.
• Veve--e-text; poem.
• The Emigrants--e-text; poem.
• Wings of a Dove--e-text; poem.
• Kamau Brathwaite--biography.
• Criticism of Brathwaite's post-1970 Poetry --abstracts of scholarly criticism of Brathwaite's poetry.
• From 'The African Presence in Caribbean Literature'--Brathwaite's well-known essay.

Maryse Conde (Guadeloupe)

• O Brave New World-- Conde's keynote address at the Comparative and African Literature Associations' joint conference, 1998.
• Maryse Conde--biography.

George Lamming (Barbadoes)

• George Lamming--biography.
• Lamming Biography.

Orlando Ricardo Menes (Cuba)

• Caliban Cimarrón--e-text; poem.
• Orlando Ricardo Menes--biography.

Roberto Fernandez Retamer (Cuba)

• Caliban: Notes toward a Discussion of Culture in our America --major selection from Retamar's famous essay in Caliban and Other Essays.

Elaine Savory (Barbadoes)

• miranda: the first voicing--e-text; poem responding to Shakespeare.
• Elaine Savory--biography.

Erik Turkman (Virgin Islands)

• Song for Caliban--e-text; poem responding to Shakespeare.
• Erik Turkman--biography.

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