Prospero's Planet. Critical Quandaries around Shakespeare's Last Play

„The rightful Duke of Milan does not belong to the time of his determinate condition as a shipwrecked aristocrat. By recourse to magic, Prospero masters the future, reversing his fate and staging an ultimate revenge against his usurpers, Sebastian and Antonio. An anti-cathartic play, whose meaning has been disputed for centuries by English culture's loftiest minds, The Tempest can be read as a dramatized manual of imperial politics – one that inaugurates the conventions of modern propaganda, where alternative futures are channeled through theatricalized politics.”

Andrei Zlătescu