A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest;' Adaptation for a Black Theatre

I read this in my post-colonial lit. class and found it to be absolutely amazing. Cesaire manages to take a classical Shakespearean play (The Tempest) and invert it on his head, paralleling it with the plight of the African slave. It is also an immaculate work of post-modernism, with some of the most brilliant stage directions ever!

The cover is so skinny I can apply my makeup looking at it lol but the print is small, Amazon often doesn’t let you see the print so just thought I’d include it to help others.

Arrived on time. Packaged nicely. Great condition.It is certainly a must for anyone studying literature, but it is also a great read for anyone interested in the application of Shakespeare's play to a historically relevant social movement.

For a reader interested in Shakespeare and/or post-colonial theory, Aime Cesaire's A TEMPEST is a great resource. Cesaire's critique of colonialism is, at times, heavy-handed, but he makes up for this with a fluency in Shakespeare that allows him to produce a powerful and innovative text with strong echoes of its classical predecessor. There is more than a little irony in the fact that Cesaire relies on the rigid dramatic structure of the colonizer, but then perhaps this is Cesaire's political and artistic legacy - a voice that attempted to affect change from within existing power structures.

Needed this book for a class. Didn’t know about this adaptation of The Tempest. We need more productions of this play.

Cesaire's A TEMPEST wears its politics on its sleeve, and that can be grating even when its political message is agreeable with your own leanings. This is not a particularly subtle work, but it is of supreme importance to understanding a number of socio-political movements, especillly as they relate to the Carribean (though it reaches far beyond that limited geographic range in its implications). Order this in conjunction with Shakepeare's original, Dryden's rewrite, Rodo's ARIEL, Retamar's CALIBAN and perhaps PROSPERO'S BOOKS starring John Gielgud. Then go to town...or perhaps away from it.

needed this for a class, i found both the class and the book incredibly boring, bu the product itself was good.

It was required for a college course and was fine for the course that it was required to be used in.

A wonderful text presented in an easily accessible form. Eminently useful for anyone interested in the work of Aime Cesaire. Essential reading for anyone studying or performing Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'.

Brilliant work. Thanks Amazon for this book.

I shall be directing a rehearsed reading of this play so it was great to get the script. Its interesting to see what Cesaire took from Shakespeare and what he brings himself re: colonialism

I'm not a huge fan of this book but its better than nothing. It was one of the more entertaining books I was assigned during English class.

I could not get into the heart of this read at all. I know it's not supposed to be the Shakepeare version but if you've read that one you'll find this one hard to stomach. To me personally, it felt like an insult to the great playwrite not a tribute.