Marvellous Repossessions: The Tempest, Globalization and the Waking Dream of Paradise

Professor of English Gil Harris explores The Tempest and its historical background, based on the Garnett Sedgewick Lecture at the University of British Columbia he delivered in 2011. In his examination of contemporary anti-colonialist productions of The Tempest, Harris shows how there remains a move backwards to an original paradise—in fact replicating the movement within The Tempest itself.