Shakespeare's Caliban: A Cultural History - Hardcover

Vaughan, Alden T.; Vaughan, Virginia Mason

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521403057 ISBN 13: 9780521403054

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Shakespeare's Caliban examines The Tempest's "savage and deformed slave" as a fascinating but ambiguous literary creation with a remarkably diverse history. The authors, one a historian and the other a Shakespearean, explore the cultural background of Caliban's creation in 1611 and his disparate metamorphoses to the present time.

About this title

Book Description:

A fascinating but ambiguous literary figure, possessing a remarkably diverse history in criticism, the arts and socio-political writings, emerges within this exploration of The Tempest's "savage and deformed slave" from his creation in 1611 to the present.

From the Back Cover:

Shakespeare's Caliban examines The Tempest's "savage and deformed slave" as a fascinating but ambiguous literary creation with a remarkably diverse history in criticism and on stage, in art, poetry, and film, and, during the twentieth century, in sociopolitical writings, especially by Caribbean and African authors.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0521403057
• ISBN 13: 9780521403054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290