Theatres of Instruction, Theatres of Learning and Shakespeare's Tempest

Abstract

In this document, Cozzi speaks of his internment in Chile in 1974 and the role that Shakespeare played in helping him to survive his ordeal and then in facilitating his emigration to Britain. In Cozzi's reading of the play, Prospero's pedagogy gives way to a ritualised theatricality that becomes a metaphor for the way learning may occur through dream, through hallucination, or through close encounters with death. Schafer sets this discussion in the context of a recent production of The Tempest by Tara Arts.