Caliban
Character in Shakespeare's play The Tempest / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Caliban (disambiguation).
Caliban (/ˈkælɪbæn/ KAL-i-ban), son of the witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
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Created by | William Shakespeare |
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Family | Sycorax (Mother) |
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His character is one of the few Shakespearean figures to take on a life of its own "outside" Shakespeare's own work:[1] as Russell Hoban put it, "Caliban is one of the hungry ideas, he's always looking for someone to word him into being ... Caliban is a necessary idea".[2]