Players in a Storm: Climate and Political Migrants in The Tempest and Othello【翻译】

本文探讨了莎士比亚的《暴风雨》和《奥赛罗》中移民与政治、环境慢暴力的关系。通过分析水、船只失事、十六至十七世纪英格兰流浪者的历史以及环保倡导，揭示了历史、经济与环境交织下移民的复杂位置。

Acknowledgments
My gratitude goes to Dr. Craig Dionne, who inspired me to look ecocritically at
Shakespeare and love doing it. He has worked diligently to help me refine this thesis and has
been a constant source of encouragement for the project. Much gratitude to Dr. Elisabeth
Däumer for her invaluable comments, suggestions, and encouragement. I am thankful to Dr.
Christine Neufeld, who first introduced me to ecocritical theory and allowed me to play around
with the poem “Pearl” in a new and fun way. To each professor at Eastern Michigan University
whom I have had the honor to study under, Dr. Derek Mueller, Dr. Charles Cunningham, Dr.
Abby Coykendall, Dr. Paul Bruss, and Dr. Natasa Kovacevic: thank you.
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Abstract
This paper presents a reading of migrants and their relationships with political and environmental
slow violence in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Othello. Using Steve Mentz’s work
with water and shipwreck, Lowell Duckert’s work on water in Shakespeare, Rob Nixon’s
concept “slow violence,” Patricia Fumerton’s book on vagrancy in sixteenth and seventeenth
century England, and Ken Hiltner’s work with environmental advocacy of the same time, I read
the social history of vagrancy of the time (presented by Hiltner and Fumerton) alongside the
Poor Laws. This social history is combined with water-focused ecocriticism, shipwreck and a
postcolonial reading of migrancy. Ultimately, the enmeshed position of the migrant in history,
economics, and their environment in Shakespeare’s works is more clearly articulated.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments .….….….….….…………………………………………………………….....i
Abstract ….......................................................................................................................................ii
List of Figures ………….……..………………………………………………………………….iv
Introduction ………………………...……………………………………………………………..1
Chapter 1: Tempestuous Slow Violence..………………………………………………………..26
Chapter 2: False as Water ………………….……………………………………………………52
Conclusion ……………………………….….….……………………………………………….78
Work Cited ……………………………………………..……….……………………………….80
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List of Figures
Figure Page
1 Were I the Moor ...………………………………………………………………….........60
2 Welcome to Cyprus ...………………………………………………………………........64
3 Chaos is Come ..….………………………………………………………………….......69
4 They Tempt Heaven ….….….…………………………………………………………...71
5 Sing Willow …..….……………………………………………………………………...72