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Learning to Spy: The Tempest as Italianate Disguised-Duke Play

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Copyright Year	2016
Description	In traditional criticism, often eager to represent the play as Shakespeare's valediction to his own art, the pivotal moment of the final scene of The Tempest has been when Prospero renounces his magic, resolving to break his staff and drown his book.1 The emotional appeal of the gesture has come from the aging magician's acceptance of his mortality, underlined by the implicit tension between the pastoral world of the island, governed by his 'potent art', and the quotidian life of Milan, where 'every third thought shall be [his] grave'.2 Contemporary critics have become more concerned with the fate of Caliban, as Prospero's grudging acknowledgement of his 'thing of darkness' embodies the master-slave dialectic of nascent colonialism.3 Here, the magician's assertion of his dominance over nature, where he has 'bedimm'd /The noontide sun, [and] call'd forth the mutinous winds', effaces his systematic tyranny1 For an important critique of sentimentalized interpretations of the play, see Harry Berger jr. in 'Miraculous Harp: A Reading of Shakespeare's Tempest', Shakespeare Studies 5 (1969), pp. 255-83. Book Name: Italian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
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Ending Page	238
Page Count	16
Starting Page	223
DOI	10.4324/9781315251707-27
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2016-12-05
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Italian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Literary Studies Tempest Shakespeare Magician Prospero Miraculous Harp Pivotal Moment Noontide Sun Harry Berger
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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