Critics

Critics

1. E.M.W. Tillyard

   • "Plot is entirely typical of Elizabethan revenge tragedy"
   • "At the end of the play Alonso and Prospero are old and worn men. A younger and happier generation is needed to secure the new state"

2. Ross McDonald

   • Play is about the "problem of power"

3. Jan Kott

   • "It is the clowns who tell the truth"
   • "To Elizabethans... the stage was the world, and the world was the stage"

4. Jonathan Miller

   • "The tragic and inevitable disintegration of a more primitive culture as a result of European invasion and colonisation"

5. Robert Wilson

   • Prospero is "an unresolved, struggling human being"

6. Sandra Clark

   • "Ultimate evil is always represented in Shakespeare as the betrayal of the bonds of nature"