EPISODE · Aug 20, 2018 · 14 MIN
172 Live at the Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, The Tempest and the New World
from The Weird History Podcast · host Joe Streckert
Shakespeare’s Tempest is a fantasy, but it’s backgrounded by European encounters with the New World. When the play was written in 1610 or 1611 European sailors had already been exploring the Americas for over a century. References to the New […]
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Shakespeare’s Tempest is a fantasy, but it’s backgrounded by European encounters with the New World. When the play was written in 1610 or 1611 European sailors had already been exploring the Americas for over a century. References to the New World show up in both the play’s text and themes, and scholars have often viewed the tempest through a colonial or postcolonial lens, though it still escapes easy allegory. This episode was recorded live at The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, a Portland art space.
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