Write a brief play called Une Tempête, or “A Tempest,” in which the colonised perspective reinterprets Shakespeare’s storyline instead of the coloniser’.

Write a brief play called Une Tempête, or “A Tempest,” in which the colonised perspective reinterprets Shakespeare’s storyline instead of the coloniser’.As with the first essay, you will choose one (1) prompt from among the three (3) provided. The essay is a total of six (6) written pages, excluding the works cited. This paper is based on close reading. You must demonstrate your engagement with the text by using ample relevant textual evidence and supporting your arguments with informed, insightful analysis. An effective critical reading involves examining your evidence (the text) for relevant details and presenting those details to construct a clear and persuasive argument about the text. Your essays will be graded primarily on the basis of a) the strength of your close reading, b) your engagement with the text, and c) the overall effectiveness of your argument. Formatting Guidelines Your essay must be formatted in MLA style. MLA style requires the following specifications: – double-spaced on a page with one-inch margins; – 12-point Times New Roman font; – have a proper MLA heading (including both Professor Gilman’s and your recitation instructor’s names); – include a title on the first page; – have page numbers on each page of the document, preceded by your last name; – be left-aligned and not justified (i.e. do not set each line to end at the right margin of the page); – follow the MLA format for citations (HERE is a good website for assistance with your works cited and in-text citations). Paper Topics 1. The Tempest The Afro-Caribbean author and politician Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) wrote a short play called Une Tempête (“A Tempest”) that reconceives Shakespeare’s plot from the point of view of the colonized rather than that of the colonizer. Your goal is to consider what changes the playwright makes in Shakespeare’s play in order to tell the “same” story from a different vantage point and what the effect of these changes has on both the text and the audience. You must engage with both texts, providing close readings in order to demonstrate the implications of each play. The translation (from the original French) is available at 2. The Prince Reread Machiavelli’s account of the career of Cesare Borgia in The Prince. Your task is first to research the facts of Cesare’s real life (using a reputable biography and citing your sources)*. Do not retell or summarize the whole biography. Rather, compare Cesare’s actual life story with the way he is represented in The Prince: What does Machiavelli highlight about Borgia to make his point, and what does he omit? How close does the “real” Cesare come to his appearance as a character in Machiavelli’s book? *NYU Libraries has many short online biographies you can access. You should not use Wikipedia or Google to locate your sources* 3. A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream concludes with a tidy community of ideal lovers. On the surface, you might view the dream space of the forest in the play as a utopia where characters can radically change their trajectories and begin life anew. With closer analysis, however, you may find that this assumption is not entirely true. Your task here is to consider how Shakespeare marries tragedy with comedy in the play. Explain what tragic elements exist within the comedy and how and/or why they complicate the play. Using close reading strategies and textual analysis, construct an argument about the darker, tragic, dystopian scenes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in which you analyze their purpose in one of Shakespeare’s most famous comedies. Your essay should demonstrate engagement with the text by using relevant quotations and providing an analysis of those quotations in each of your body paragraphs.

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