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Essay Archive - The Tempest. An Imperialist Heaven or Hell?
The Tempest. An Imperialist Heaven or Hell?
Shakespeare lived and wrote in the Elizabethan age, a time when his
society was branching out and making itself known throughout the world by
colonizing other cultures. Great Britain was reaching for new heights of power.
In the play Shakespeare questions the value of this new concept of British
imperialism. The Tempest is called Shakespeare's American play, because he
calls into question England's right to colonize other nations, much as American
colonists did with America 200 years later.
The Tempest was Shakespeare's last play. For his entire life he had
written....
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