Shakespeare's Caliban: A Cultural History

By Virginia Mason, Alden T. Vaughan, Virginia Mason Vaughan

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052145817X
• ISBN13: 9780521458177
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"