ABSTRACT
In our century The Tempest has assumed a special prominence, many modem critics contending that through this work Shakespeare presented mankind with a “new vision” or at least with the playwright’s “final vision” of the world. E. M. W. Tillyard suggests that the play embodies the theme of “regeneration” in which “Ferdinand and Miranda sustain Prospero in representing a new order of things that has evolved out of destruction.” 1 For Mark Van Doren, the play is an attempt “to fix a vision…Shakespeare is telling us for the last time about the world…. The Tempest does bind up in final form a host of themes with which the author has been concerned.” 2 And G. Wilson Knight observes that the play “repeats, as it were, in miniature, the separate themes of Shakespeare’s greater Plays…. It yet distils the poetic essence of the whole Shakespearian universe.” 3
