A painting of Miranda, one of the characters in The Tempest, by Frederick Goodall (1888). Folger Shakespeare Library In the 400 years since his death, William Shakespeare’s work has been used as a lens through which to interpret countless developments he could never have anticipated – from modern psychology and political theory to colonialism and climate change. His writing possesses an uncanny ability to illuminate nearly every facet of the human condition. Yet, as a decolonial scholar and an