Jacqueline E. M. Latham (essay date 1975)
SOURCE: Latham, Jacqueline E. M. “The Tempest and King James's Daemonologie.” Shakespeare Survey 28 (1975): 117-23.
[In the following essay, Latham identifies James's Daemonologie as a possible source for the character of Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest.]
The Tempest offers a twentieth-century audience more problems for a full understanding than most of Shakespeare's plays, and these problems are the more insidious because action, language and characters seem...
Source: Literary Criticism (1400-1800), ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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