A Tempest by Cesaire clarifies Shakespeare's The Tempest"Negritude, originally a literary and ideological movement of French-speaking black intellectuals, reflects an important and global reaction to the colonial situation of the colonizing European countries" (Carlberg). This movement, which has influenced Africans as well as blacks around the world, specifically rejects the political, social and moral domination of the West. Leopold Senghor, Leon Damas and Aime Cesaire are the three pioneers of the revolution. The founder who expresses his ideas most broadly, however, is Cesaire, who uses literary works to express his point of view on colonization. An excellent example of such a tactic is his play, A Tempest, which is a revision of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Both Shakespeare and Césaire accentuate the greed of Europeans in their works. However, Césaire is more evident in his approach to denunciation. A comparison of the two plays shows that Cesaire's version, written in the late 1960s, is written as a comparison with Shakespeare's work. It is attempting to comment on the corruption of colonialism and European domination of the New World through strategies such as making seemingly minor changes, changing the role of the main character, and altering the plot itself. Incorporating alterations such as ethical changes, using different language, and changing the title may seem ineffective at first, but a careful reading demonstrates that Cesaire uses these strategies as a reaction to European colonialism. Because it was written in the 1600s, a time when European domination of the East was present and blacks were nothing more than serfs, William Shakespeare's work does not include or mention black... middle of paper... . Theories of Colonialism & Postcolonialism", Brown Univ. 1993 Available: http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/poldiscourse/negritude.htmlCesaire, Aime. A Tempest. Trans. Richard Miller. New York: UBU, 1992. Davis, Gregson. United Kingdom: Cambridge Univ Press, 1997. Dayan, Joan “Playing Caliban; The Tempest of Caesar." Arizona Ouarterly. 48.4 (1942): 125-145. Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Ed. Frank Kermode. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1958. Consulted Works Breitman, George. The Bible. Malcolm Selected Speeches and Statements. New York: Pathfinder, 1989. Neilson, Shakespeare and The Tempest New Hampshire: Richard C. Smith Inc., 1956. West, Cornel New York: Vintage, 1992. Malcolm Martins, 1992.