Abstract
This interview with Dr. Mary Ann Saunders, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin, offers a new interpretation of Julie Taymor’s film The Tempest. Bringing her life experience to bear on cisgender biases in non-trans artists’ works, Saunders proposes a new interpretation of Ariel, as performed by Ben Whishaw, as a trans woman who is “both beautiful and bittersweet.” Reading Shakespeare as a “trans archive” enables us to more effectively interrogate the long history of associating trans bodies with monstrosity and bodies in distress.
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