In this forceful study, Helen C.
Scott begins with an account of the global processes of dispossession--of the peasantry and indi.
Scott situates The Tempest within Marxist analyses of the \'primitive accumulation\' of capital, which she suggests help explain the play\'s continued and particular resonance. The \'storm\' of the title refers both to Shakespeare\'s Tempest hurtling through time, and to Walter Benjamin\'s concept of History as a succession of violent catastrophes.
In this forceful study, Helen C