coleridge 1800’s
Ariel is ‘an elemental spirit robbed of freedom and tortured by the loss’
18th century to 1930’s characterisation of areil in plays
exclusively female which highlighted the role as a victim
coleridge 1820’s
‘neither born of heaven, nor of earth,; but as it were, both’
Hudson 1909
‘Nowhere in Shakespeare’s plays are two more sharply contrasted characters than Ariel and Caliban’
Goring’s 1940 production
Remote, alien portrayal of Ariel; rebellious and longing for freedom
Lindley 1984
‘Shakespeare has stripped off from Caliban what is ethereal and refined, and compounded them into Ariel’
doran 2016 production
made use of technology to highlight his spiritual nature