On the character of Prospero in The Tempest

Reading further in Shakespeare to offer some advice re a project to stage contemporary-language versions of each of S's plays, I read a contemporary-language v of The Tempest and was mainly struck by the political context of the play. Though critics over hundreds of years have written about The Tempest as a "romance" and have accepted the play as Prospero's alone, as a story of his paternal benevolence, his wise rule, and his justified restoration to power - keeping up the theme of The Winter's Tale and as well as the 2 lesser-known romances of that which was lost has been found, how could any production or critical analysis of the play today avoid the obvious references to colonialism, racism, and tyranny? And these are not just contemporary ideas applied to S's work in retrospect; these are obviously ideas in S's mind and in the consciousness of his world, when he wrote the play - the beginnings of the yeas of global exploration (and exploitation), of the "discovery" (by Europeans) of a "new" world, and of great wonder and curiosity about the indigenous people and about what kind of life, society, and government could be established in these unexplored territories. So, yes, the Tempest is Prospero's play, and yes there are ways in which his character expresses ideas and thoughts of S himself about the art of drama and illusion - but it's impossible today to overlook that he's a tyrant and exploiter, a slave-master who uses his (white?) power/magic to control others, most obviously his two servants (slaves), one of whom is the good servant, "yes massah!," kept in line through promises, someday, of "freedom," and the other a rebellious, trouble-making slave who takes what opportunity he can to get free from his bondage and torment - and suffers for that. Additionally, Prospero is cruel and manipulative even to his daughter - keeping the secret of her origins for 15 years, then - in a somewhat hilarious manner - hooking her up w/ the man he wants her to marry, for political reasons only; of course she falls for Ferdinand, he's the first man her age she's eve seen!, but note her famous gasp of surprise (and 2nd thoughts?), "Oh, brave new world!," when she realizes that there are plenty of other men in this world. Does this bode ill for the arranged marriage? Prospero doesn't care; he takes what he can get, a true imperialist and colonialist.