{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Tempest: Patriarchy, Gender, and Power in Shakespeare\u2019s Play","description":"Want to support the podcast? Join our Patreon or buy us a coffee. As an independent podcast, Shakespeare Anyone? is supported by listeners like you. In this episode, we explore how&amp;nbsp;The Tempest reflects\u2014and at times challenges\u2014patriarchal power structures in Shakespeare\u2019s world and in its performance history. First, we examine how Prospero\u2019s control over Miranda, Ariel, and Caliban reflects early modern ideas and debates about gender, political authority, and service. Then, we look at how changing the gender of Prospero reshapes the play\u2019s dynamics,&amp;nbsp; how productions across stage and screen have used gender to reimagine magic, hierarchy, and power, and what the critical response to these productions reveals about modern gender politics.&amp;nbsp; Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp. Music is &quot;Neverending Minute&quot; by Sounds Like Sander. For updates: join our email list, follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com You can support the podcast by becoming a patron at patreon.com\/shakespeareanyone, buying us coffee, or by shopping our bookshelves at bookshop.org\/shop\/shakespeareanyonepod&amp;nbsp;(we earn a small commission when you use our link and shop bookshop.org). Find additional links mentioned in the episode in our Linktree. Works referenced: Goodland, Katharine. \u201cFrom Prospero to Prospera: Transforming Gender and Magic on Stage and Screen.\u201d Shakespeare and the Supernatural, edited by Victoria Bladen and Yan Brailowsky, Manchester University Press, 2020, pp. 218\u201342. JSTOR, http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/jj.21996273.16. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.  Sanchez, Melissa E. \u201cSeduction and Service in \u2018The Tempest.\u2019\u201d Studies in Philology, vol. 105, no. 1, 2008, pp. 50\u201382. JSTOR, http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/20464307. Accessed 10 Aug. 2025.  ","author_name":"Shakespeare Anyone?","author_url":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareanyone.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/37752165\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/37752165"}