Recent Perspectives on  The Tempest

Inspired by the reinvigorating theory of Wai-Chee Dimok and Rita Felski, I argue that The Tempest resonates with current theory and performance of Indigenous resurgence in North America. With reference to the work of Indigenous performance theorist Floyd Favel, political thinkers Leanne Simpson and Glen Sean Coulthard, and to plays and performances by Yvette Nolan, Monique Mojica, Kevin Loring, and Spiderwoman Theatre, I describe resurgence as culturally recuperative practices of movement on the land that make it feel more comfortable, establish an Indigenous sense of sovereignty, and diminish shame. I emphasize the ways in which the physical and imaginative mobilities of Shakespeare’s Boatswain and Gonzalo anticipate the comforting—and insurgent—land-oriented movements of Caliban. I argue that Caliban’s sense of natural sovereignty is understood better in terms of free and secure mobility than in terms of rule or possession.

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Montorfano

2024

Studi Di Letterature Moderne E Comparate

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“Who owns Shakespeare?” is a compelling question when one decides to delve into the relationship between the English author and experiences that share, albeit with considerable mutual differences, the category of marginality. At the centre of the volume are the case studies: Un’isola. Dalla mia finestra si vedono le montagne (2018), a production based on The Tempest and performed by the actors-prisoners of the Vigevano prison, directed by Alessia Gennari; Otello Circus (2018), by the company La Ribalta/Accademia Arte della Diversità, staged with actors with disabilities by director Antonio Viganò; Mal’essere (2017), a rewriting in Campania dialects of Hamlet, conceived and directed by Davide Iodice and produced by the Teatro Stabile di Napoli.

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Recent Perspectives on The Tempest

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Free Flight: The Tempest

Free Flight: The Tempest

Resistance Movements:The Tempest,Resurgence, and Indigenous Performance on Turtle Island

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