PROSPERO – ÎNTRE RĂZBOI ŞI PACE
PROSPERO – BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE

Summary/Abstract: In the current context, when war has returned on everyone's lips and its threat is no longer just a shadowthat sits silently, but a palpable presence called „terror”, a critical debate that questions Shakespeare's work from this perspective is more than necessary. „Our Contemporary”, as we know Shakespeare from Jan Kott's book, gives us a wide range of situations and characters where this theme of conflagrations is rich and acute. When choosing Prospero as a case study for my communication, I placed my bet on a multifaceted image of the character, filtered through the experience of watching four milestone performances of „The Tempest” belonging to the Romanian theatre of the last decades. With the support of the four chosen hypostases, I outlined the portrait of an anti-hero who chooses the personal sacrifice in the name of the greater good, projected in the future; Prospero, the one who sets out a war in a micro-climate that he can control in the name of peace, in the world beyond the borders of his island. The demonstration I'm proposing is a journey starting from observation, sedimentation and personal analysis that adds an extra valence to this fascinating character from the works of Shakespeare.

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