First Literary Picture of Native Americans: Colonial Approach to Shakespeare's The Tempest

Resumen

This article aims to analyse Shakespeare’s The Tempest from a colonial perspective. There is an exceptional interest in three keyfigures I do consider to be fundamental for the coming analysis. On the one hand, Prospero, the settler, and, on the other, Arieland Caliban as colonised subjects. Along with imperialistic dynamics, language, representations or power will also be brieflydiscussed. This paper is moreover rather innovative considering the very few literature written on Shakespeare and colonialism. Tothat end, I have consulted not only postcolonial theorists but reviews on the subject at hand.