"Shakespeare's Hermetic Lampedusa: From Colonial Fantasies to the Afterlife in The Tempest"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbm108/
Author:
	Rooney, Caroline.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2022
Publication Information:
	Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 42 (2022).
Annotation:
	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.”
Language:
	English
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Tempest
WSB Update:
	Spring 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbm108