McDonald, ''Reading The Tempest''

Don't read this.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/02/its_the_sentence_that_never_en.html

"Moreover, the style and form of The Tempest engage the audience textually with the same issues of control and mastery-the problem of power-that are brought into sharp focus by considerations of historical context" (McDonald 101). Click here!

Where is the perfect formula for Literary Criticism?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/02/where_is_the_perfect_formula_f.html

Expectancy + No Answer ≠ Pleasure
“…it promises much and delivers little, and I propose that it is just this dynamic that makes The Tempest uncommonly meaningful” (McDonald 105).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/02/expectancy_no_answer_pleasure.html

aesthetically pleasing
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyMerryman/2009/02/delicate-relations.html

Can you repeat that?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JodiSchweizer/2009/02/peat_and_repeat.html

Please, repeat that!

“The tendency of words and phrases to repeat themselves may be linked to the play’s profound concern with reproduction, in various senses from the biographical to the political” (McDonald 101).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/02/please-repeat-that.html

"Repetition becomes a prominent figure in Shakespeare's late style generally, and The Tempest in particular derives much of its poetic power from phonetic, lexical, and syntactial reiteration" (McDonald 101).

I agree with Walter Cohen: “The Tempest uncovers, perhaps despite itself, the racist and imperialist bases of English Nationalism.” (McDonald 99)

On the outside looking in. http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2009/02/on_the_outside.html

"...in late Shakespeare generally, the effect of the poetry is to promote uncertainty and to insist on ambiguity..." (McDonald 101). I find it really nice that it seems Shakespeare left much to the audience. Could this be why many of his works are so timeless. The more you leave to be filled in by the audience, the more the audience is going to feel part of the work.

"Repetition becomes a prominent figure in Shakespeare's late style generally, and The Tempest in particular derives much of its poetic power from phonetic lexical, and syntactical reiteration."

"...in late Shakespeare generally, the effect of the poetry is to promote uncertainty and to insist on ambiguity..."

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/CoreyStruss/2009/02/a_taste_of_ambiguity_within_th.html

"...Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done."
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/QuinnKerno/2009/02/alternative_met.html

"Internal repetition of action has been a staple of Shakespearian dramatic structure since the early 1950s, the double wooing of Katherine and Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew being perhaps the most illustrative case," (McDonald 104).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyBouchard/2009/02/double_double_toil_and_trouble.html