Prospero, a deposed duke and sorcerer, conjures a storm to shipwreck his enemies on his island. Shakespeare's last solo play reads like a farewell to the theater: the magician who controls everything finally breaks his staff and drowns his book. Postcolonial critics have turned it inside out, reading Caliban as the colonized subject. Both readings work.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.