Double Plots and the Dual Civilizing Process in The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island

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William Shakespeare’s The Tempest was adapted by William Davenant and John Dryden in 1667 as The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island. Their adaptation has been regarded as an inferior version of Shakespeare’s original that does not require serious critical attention. However, following some recent critics’ extensive research, the socio-political or cultural aspects of this text have been identified as areas deserving fuller discussion. In this paper, I argue that the development of the double plots in The Enchanted Island shows that the text explores ways in which to civilize the barbarous in both its political and sexual aspects. In addition, I argue that the idea of civility described in the text is dually constructed. Civility, the code which delineates the civilized from the barbarous, is represented in the text not as transparent but as an equivocal concept that requires the complementary presence of anti-civility.
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