This dissertation, therefore, describes and analyzes how and why the plays of Murray Carlin, Aimé Césaire, and Derek Walcott function both creatively and critically, adapting Shakespeare's plays, and foregrounding post-colonial criticism of his plays. This dissertation combines post-colonial theory and other literary theory, particularly by Kenneth Burke, to propose a rhetoric of motives for post-colonial authors who "write back" to Shakespeare through the use of counter-discursive metatheatre. As particular post-colonial authors identify with marginalized Shakespearean characters and aim to amplify their conflicts from the perspective of a dominated culture, they interpret themes of race, gender, and colonialism in 'Othello' (1604), 'Antony and Cleopatra' (1608), and 'The Tempest' (1611) as explicit problems. What role did identification play in the motives, processes, and products of select post-colonial authors who "wrote back" to William Shakespeare and colonialism? How did post-colonial counter-discursive metatheatre function to make select post-colonial adaptations creative and critical texts? In answer to these questions, this dissertation proposes that counter-discursive metatheatre resituates post-colonial plays as criticism of Shakespeare's plays. The study concludes by reviewing its main findings within the larger contexts of Renaissance studies, and of critical theory on interethnic encounters.
#My hero academy tempest codes code
The reading of those plays not only focuses on how imagery serves to construct character, but also how characterisation is used to expose the code of the spotted as a manipulative rhetorical device. Having sketched out the multiple meanings attached to three archetypes of the spotted (the beast, the diseased body, and the lecher), the study proceeds to close-read this symbolism within three Shakespearean plays involving non-European characters: Titus Andronicus, Othello and The Tempest. Whereas numerous Renaissance texts exploit this code of the spotted to popularise vaguely-defined concepts of ethnic segregation, some select works insightfully mimic this code to question its underlying rationale.
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Drawing from a wide range of visual, verbal and performative texts, the study documents how images of spottedness areinstrumentalised to vilify unfamliar physiognomies and skin colour as symptoms of bestiality, of disease, and of unbridled lust.
This doctoral thesis explores a symbolic code which early modern colonial discourse regularly invokes in order to mark non-Europeans as corrupted and fallen creatures.
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