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Marvellous Repossessions
Jonathan Gil Harris
其他書名
The Tempest, Globalization, and the Waking Dream of Paradise
出版
Ronsdale Press
, 2012
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers
Drama / Shakespeare
Humor / Form / Parodies
Literary Criticism / Drama
Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
Literary Criticism / Renaissance
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Politics
ISBN
1553801415
9781553801412
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mgrLygAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. For many years now theater directors have argued about how to present Shakespeare's The Tempest. Originally, the play was seen as Prospero's use of magic to reclaim his European heritage against corrupt usurpers. More recently, the play has been produced as a protest against the ongoing colonialism in the new world. In his 2011 Garnett Sedgewick Lecture at the University of British Columbia, Professor Harris explores the play and its historical background to show how it is driven by a waking dream in which progress towards a glorious future shades into recovery of a lost past. Drawing on the logbook of Christopher Columbus in his voyage of discovery, Harris reminds us how Columbus believed that he was traveling to the East and that he had approached the original Garden of Eden. Moreover, the gold that was to be found in the supposed East would be used to create the prosperity of the West. In his examination of contemporary anti-colonialist productions of The Tempest, Harris shows how there remains a move backwards to an original paradise--in fact replicating the movement within The Tempest itself.