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Seduction and Service in The Tempest by Melissa E. Sanchez he Tempest is unique among Shakespeare’s plays in that it lists onlyo ne female character in the dramatis personae. Yet Miranda’s Tisolation is neither inconsequential nor entire; in actualitysh , e is the touchstonefor the women who enter the play via its tissue of allu - sions and whose presence makes legible a contemporary political dis - course thatlikened the relationof sovereign and subject to thatof hus - band and wife. The sixteenthcen tury had seen critiques of Elizabethan policy couched in the erotic entanglements of such influential romances as Sidney’s Arcadia and Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, and Shakespeare’s latepla ys evoke similar narrative structures to participate in an ongoing debate regarding the location and scope of sovereignty in early Stuart England. Read in such a discursive context, The Tempest’s attention to female desire and consentreg isters the participation of both popu - lace and ruler, women and men, in sustaining structures of authority. Miranda’s enactmentof political su bjectiondiff ers conspicuously from thatof Ariel, Caliban,or any of the shipwrecked Italians,for
Studies in Philology – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 10, 2008
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