The Ideas of power, slavery and freedom in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest': a political re-reading based on his characters' tendencies

Power, slavery, freedom are three words that define some insistently frequent semantic fields in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. These are very large figures: an extraordinary frequency, which is obviously not coincidental. This article aims to show that these three semantic fields define the thr...

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Autor: Salas-Lleal, Jordi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10256/25019
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10256/25019
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. The Tempest
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Personatges
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters
Personatges literaris
Characters and characteristics in literature
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Sumario:Power, slavery, freedom are three words that define some insistently frequent semantic fields in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. These are very large figures: an extraordinary frequency, which is obviously not coincidental. This article aims to show that these three semantic fields define the three main pillars that enable a re-reading of the characters in The Tempest based on the analysis of the life positions of each of them, and ultimately in light of contemporary political thought