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Caliban

Caliban (/ˈkælɪbæn/ KAL-i-ban), son of the witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

For other uses, see Caliban (disambiguation).

Caliban

William Shakespeare

Sycorax (Mother)

His character is one of the few Shakespearean figures to take on a life of its own "outside" Shakespeare's own work:[1] as Russell Hoban put it, "Caliban is one of the hungry ideas, he's always looking for someone to word him into being ... Caliban is a necessary idea".[2]

1960 – in the Marlowe Dramatic Society And Professional Players unabridged recording (Argo Records, 216–218)

Patrick Wymark

1963 – in the RSC production

Roy Dotrice

1964 – in the Shakespeare Recording Society unabridged recording (Caedmon Records, SRS 201)

Hugh Griffith

1968 – Peter Brooks and the RSC expressed the character of Caliban through violence and homosexuality, dubbed as Brooks' "experiment".

1974 – in the BBC Radio 3 production

Patrick Stewart

1978 – in the RSC production directed by Clifford Williams

David Suchet

1982 – in the RSC production

Bob Peck

1983 – in the Bard Productions videotaped production

William Hootkins

1990 – David Bennett in a production directed by Peter Brook and debuting at the Boffles Du Nord

1993 – in the RSC production

David Troughton

1998 – in the RSC production

Robert Glenister

2000 – in the RSC production

Zubin Varla

2009 – in the RSC production

John Kani

2023 – Hassiem Muhammad and Ryan Sellers in a production co-directed by Teller and Aaron Posner

Round House Theatre

1775 – Etching of Caliban by with the caption "Do not torment me prithee / I'll bring my wood home faster"[16]

John Hamilton Mortimer

Arielismo

, a poem by P. G. Wodehouse.

Caliban at Sunset

Vaughan, Virginia Mason (1985). "'Something Rich and Strange': Caliban's Theatrical Metamorphoses". Shakespeare Quarterly. 36 (4): 390–405. :10.2307/2870303. JSTOR 2870303.

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a poem by Robert Browning.

"Caliban Upon Setebos

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - list of past RSC productions