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Shakespeare's Caliban : A Cultural History
Shakespeare's Caliban A Cultural History Author:Alden T. Vaughan, Virginia Mason Vaughan 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.