> By the end of act 4, Prospero's plantation [which Kott
> explains earlier is a new word in English vocabulary, used for the
> first time by Shakespeare in this play]
Kott's wrong here, i think, Alison. OED2 (3) has, for this sense:
c. The settlement of persons in some locality; esp. the planting of a
colony; colonization.
1586 J. Hooker Hist. Irel. Ep. Ded., Not for anie religion or plantation of
a Commonwealth.
Robin
{The Irish Connection with the word "plantation" makes me to wonder -- after
all, Essex was topped about fifteen years before the play was wrote.
Political, yes, but not colonial political. Or at least not Indies
colonial.
R. }
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