Reading
Primary text:
The Tempest
Secondary reading:
(1) Explore some of the texts from the reading list.
(2) Since the 1980s, The Tempest has been associated by a number of critics with England's growing colonial investments in the Renaissance. Recently, however, other critics have been raising warnings against such post-colonial readings of the play. Read the two attached essays to get a sense of this ongoing debate, and be ready to discuss your own position on this in the tutorial.
Download them here and here.