RENAISSANCE TRAVEL: FROM UTOPIA TO THE NEW WORLD IN SHAKESPEARE’S THE TEMPEST
RENAISSANCE TRAVEL: FROM UTOPIA TO THE NEW WORLD IN SHAKESPEARE’S THE TEMPEST

Summary/Abstract: The writing of travel narratives during Reanaissance, most of which are products of imagination, probably demonstrates the writers’ eagerness to portray life on the new found land. Many of these narratives, most notably More’s Utopia, projected the model of an ideal society governed on the principles of equality and uniformity underlying a commonwealth settled far removed from the world. In this article, I discuss Shakespeare’s The Tempest as a play modelled after travel narratives, in which ideas about remote places, how they are projected and how they are in reality are contrasted in what I see as a paradigmatic shift from utopia to new land.

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