Tempests After Shakespeare shows how the 'rewriting' of Shakespeare's
play serves as an interpretative grid through which to read three
movements - postcoloniality, postpatriarchy, and postmodernism - via the
Tempest characters of Caliban, Miranda/Sycorax and Prospero, as they vie
for the ownership of meaning at the end of the twentieth century.
Covering texts in three languages, from four continents and in the last
four decades, this study imaginatively explores the collapse of empire
and the emergence of independent nation-states; the advent of feminism
and other sexual liberation movements that challenged patriarchy; and
the varied critiques of representation that make up the 'postmodern
condition'.