Well! I started the year thinking Shakespeare wasn’t for me. Like most people, I suspect, school was enough to put me off for decades. But having read 12 Shakespeare plays in the past 12 months, I am not just a convert but a disciple.
The Tempest is utterly incredible. Others on GoodReads have given much better reviews so all I will say is, this is a wonderful magical treat.
I think it can be read in many ways, humour, patriarch societies, philosophical, etc etc
I see a lot about colonialism regarding this book and I do get that… but who does the island really ‘belong’ to. Even Caliban was an immigrant. I think it says a lot about how the west treated people when they arrived at new places though.
I see that, and other themes in the book in the light of todays awareness, but I think it is important to read this, acknowledge how things have changed, think around the subject, but not disregard the play on that alone.