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Character in Shakespeare's play The Tempest
Caliban, the subhuman son of the sea witch Sycorax, is a prominent character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: CalibanA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Making theatre from the debris of The Tempest : La Tempête de Caliban , a monologue for an actor-puppeteer and a foley artist partnerInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The TempestThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Between Prospero and Caliban: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Inter-identityCited 90 times
- Go sideways: The TempestA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Stephano (The Tempest)A closely related topic
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Between Prospero and Caliban: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Inter-identity
Caliban, social reproduction and our future yet to come
Creature Caliban
Drosophila caliban, a nuclear export mediator, can function as a tumor suppressor in human lung cancer cells
Drosophila Caliban preserves intestinal homeostasis and lifespan through regulating mitochondrial dynamics and redox state in enterocytes
Burst Wait-Times in the Caliban Reactor Using the Gamma Probability Distribution Function
Multicolor Photometry of the Uranus Irregular Satellites Sycorax and Caliban
CALIBAN, ARIEL, AND UNPROSPERO IN THE CONFLICT OF CREOLIZATION: A STUDY OF THE SLAVE REVOLT IN JAMAICA IN 1831–32
🆕 Influential since 2022
Making theatre from the debris of The Tempest : La Tempête de Caliban , a monologue for an actor-puppeteer and a foley artist partner
Revisiting Caliban: A Postcolonial Scrutiny of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Artifice and animality in The Tempest : Imagining Caliban
Caliban is a transcriptional target of p53 in response to DNA damage
Caliban Meets Caupolicán: Dissonance, Indigenous Representation, and the Limits of Empire in Arauco domado and The Tempest [VIDEO AVAILABLE]
📚 Books worth reading
The TempestWilliam Shakespeare · 1611
Caliban's HourTad Williams · 1993
One for the MoneyD. B. Borton · 1995
The tempestChris Powling · 2000- 📕Type specimens of Caliban PressMark McMurray · 1991
Three is a crowdD. B. Borton · 1994- 📕Program of the performances of "Caliban by the yellow sands"Percy MacKaye · 1917
CalibanRobert Devereaux · 2002
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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