Nov 14, 2009

The Production of Early Modern Humanism in "The Tempest"

The following is a term paper I wrote for a course I had this semester on The Tempest and how it has been read by several theoretical frameworks. In it I analyze the ways in which Prospero (and consequently the play) produces Early Modern humanism by the means of a reconfiguration of Renaissance science and (especially) art, together with the inauguration of the human/animal divide.