Shakespeare’s The Tempest Revisited: Nietzsche and the Myth of the New World

The Tempest is the only play in the Shakespearean canon that is open to a purely “Americanist” reading. Although Prospero’s island is located somewhere in the Mediterranean, numerous critics claimed that it deals with the New World (Hulme & Sherman 2000: 171). The paper revisits the existing int...

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Main Author: Burzyńska Katarzyna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2019-03-01
Series:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2019-0011