(NLR 146), Fredric Jameson argues that pastiche, rather than parody, is the appropriate mode of postmodernist culture. ‘Pastiche’, he writes, ‘is, like parody, the imitation of a peculiar mask, speech in a dead language; but it is a neutral practice of such mimicry, without any of parody’s ulterior motives, amputated of the satiric impulse, devoid of laughter and of any conviction that alongsid...

The works of William Shakespeare have a universal influence and are considered representatives all times ages. Critics, scholars, academics, students been rereading, reexamining, retelling, restaging his plays century after century. This dissertation proposes to examine Tempest as postmodern text. elements: ant-formality, pastiche, intertextuality, paranoia, irony, playfulness, puns, wordplays,...