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| Title: | Unmasking romance in The Tempest : politics, theatre and T.S. Eliot |
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| Source document: | Brno studies in English. 2019, vol. 45, iss. 1, pp. [111]-128 |
| Extent: | [111]-128 |
| ISSN: | 0524-6881 (print); 1805-0867 (online) |
| DOI: | 10.5817/BSE2019-1-7 |
| Type: | Article (English) |
| Stable URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/140998 |
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Abstract(s):
This study engages with recent postcolonial and new-historicist readings of William Shakespeare's The Tempest to reassess its exploitation and subversion of romance conventions, exploring an intertextual reading of Shakespeare's play and T.S. Eliot's modernist classic The Waste Land. The aim is to probe into the romance ideology enacted and arguably undermined in the play, going one step further from examining the interplay of the play with artistic, political and historiographical discourses and counter-discourses of the time. Taking as example and point of reference the prominence and reinterpretation of The Tempest in The Waste Land, this article aims to explore the arguably subversive dramatization of romance in the early-modern play as belonging in a continuum of meaning that has not only inspired but actually maintains an ongoing dialogue across literary tradition.
Keywords:
William Shakespeare; The Tempest; romance; T.S. Eliot; The Waste Land; myth-criticism; new historicism; intertextuality
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