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Caliban
Caliban,in Shakespeare's The Tempest , is described in the Folio ‘Names of the Actors’ as ‘a salvage and deformed slave’. His name probably derives either from ‘Carib’ or ‘cannibal’. Son of the witch Sycorax and the original possessor of Prospero 's island, he is only semi-human, but has often been portrayed sympathetically in modern productions: the poetic qualities of his speeches and post-colonial readings of the text have facilitated this.
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