Caliban

• Gilbertson


  Caliban was dependent on Prospero for love as well as education
• Coleridge 


  Caliban is a noble being
• Lamming


  Caliban is his convert, colonised by language excluded by language
• Todd


  Only Caliban's body is enslaved
• Delvin


  Caliban is master of the situation
• Gibson


  Shakespeare presents a eurocentric view of colonisation in the tempest
• Skura


  Caliban's childish innocence first attracted Prospero...now childish lawlessness enrages him
• Delvin


  island brings out the best in Caliban
• Coleridge 


  caliban is not innocent
• Lamming


  victim of mental torture
• Benson production 1890s


  Caliban on animalistic habits + carried an actual fish in his mouth
• Beerbohm Tree, Her Majesty’s Theatre production (1904)

  Rearranged so Caliban closed the play - Caliban creeps out of his cave as the ship bearing Prospero and his companions disappears on the horizon
• Knight


  [Ariel and Caliban are] like Plato’s two seeds of the soul, the noble and the hideous, twin potentialities of the human spirit
• Coleridge


  Caliban hears music with pleasure as music can appeal to a beast who lacks reason