Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR IS - 42 T2 - Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics ID - bbbm108 T1 - "Shakespeare's Hermetic Lampedusa: From Colonial Fantasies to the Afterlife in The Tempest" AU - Rooney, Caroline PY - 2022 DA - 2026 LA - English AB - Argues that Tempest is functionally two plays in one, with each play inverting the other. Argues one play ostensibly concerns life, but is revealed to be a “mortal history of destructive usurpation,” while other play, seemingly about death, is revealed to be “true transmission of life in its mystical dimension.” ER -