For Shakespeare’s birthday, a celebration of The Tempest, including discussions of “Caliban upon Setebos” by Robert Browning, A Tempest by Aimé Césaire, and The Sea and the Mirror by W. H. Auden, with a consideration of Shakespeare’s power and longevity, thoughts on the racial and colonial interpretation of the play, and an argument about whether or not magic (and pornography and propaganda) are the same as art.

Note: my essay on The Tempest.

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