"'Forward and Backward': Actants and Agency in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Shakespeare's The Tempest"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbl2564/
Author:
	Sawyer, Robert.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2021
Publication Information:
	Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation, and Performance 24, no. 39 (2021): 105–119. (https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir/article/view/12902)
DOI:
	10.18778/2083-8530.24.07
Annotation:
	Offers posthumanist reading of Tempest, focusing on Prospero as magus who attempts to control his environment. Draws on Jan Kott’s theory of “Grand Mechanism” of history, arguing this anticipates later posthumanist theories. Builds on Kott’s reading of Prospero as version of Leonardo DaVinci, “a master of mechanics and hydraulics,”  well versed in both astronomy  and anatomy. English summary, online.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Kott, Jan; DaVinci, Leonardo
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare Scholars
WSB Update:
	Spring 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbl2564