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Character in Shakespeare's The Tempest
Sycorax is an unseen character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). She is a vicious and powerful witch and the mother of Caliban, one of the few native inhabitants of the island on which Prospero, the hero of the play, is stranded. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: SycoraxA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Coletivo Sycorax: desdobramentos de práticas feministas de traduçãoInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Häxan SycoraxThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Silencing Sycorax: On African Colonial Discourse and the Unvoiced FemaleCited 43 times
- Go sideways: The TempestA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Ariel (The Tempest)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Silencing Sycorax: On African Colonial Discourse and the Unvoiced Female
Photometric and spectroscopic observations of Sycorax, satellite of Uranus
Forcipomyia velox winn. et Sycorax silacea curtis, vecteurs d’Icosiella neglecta (diesing) filaire commune de la grenouille verte
Multicolor Photometry of the Uranus Irregular Satellites Sycorax and Caliban
Light curves and colours of the faint Uranian irregular satellites Sycorax, Prospero, Stephano, Setebos, and Trinculo
A new species of Sycorax Curtis (Diptera, Psychodidae, Sycoracinae) collected on harlequin frogs (Anura: Bufonidae, Atelopus) in the Ecuadorian Andes
Two new species of Sycorax (Diptera: Psychodidae: Sycoracinae) from the Oriental Region
The Restoration Muslim Tangerines Caliban and Sycorax in Dryden-Davenant’s Adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest
🆕 Influential since 2022
Coletivo Sycorax: desdobramentos de práticas feministas de tradução
A new genus and new species of Sycoracinae (Diptera: Psychodidae) from the Neotropical region with keys to the extant genera of the subfamily and males of Neotropical species of Sycorax
A new species of Sycorax (Sycoracinae: Psychodidae) from the Lower Eocene amber of Tadkeshwar, Gujarat, India
New species of Sycorax (Diptera: Psychodidae) from the Brazilian Amazon
Commoning translation: an overview of theories, practices and intellectual works of the Brazilian Sycorax Collective
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Häxan SycoraxIngvar Holm · 1984
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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