ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at how nature is implicated in political power in two very different plays by William Shakespeare. One of them, The Tempest (1611), includes magic as part of the prevailing understanding of nature. Therefore, this chapter is about how theatre conjures magic from human embodiment in nature. In this way theatre contributes to potent political power. Social power, in the special charged space of the stage, is liberated by means of drama and distilled by the audience's imagination.
