The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.1602 Saturday, 24 September 2005
[1] From: YuJin Ko <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 22 Sep 2005 14:59:48 -0400
Subj: Caliban's Father
[2] From: Joseph Egert <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 22 Sep 2005 20:42:45 +0000
Subj: Re: SHK 16.1587 Caliban's Father
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From: YuJin Ko <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 22 Sep 2005 14:59:48 -0400
Subject: Caliban's Father
Dennis Taylor asks:
Has anyone argued that Caliban is Prospero's son by Sycorax ("this thing
of darkness I / acknowledge mine"). I know there is an occasional
tendency to make Miranda and Caliban contrasting "children", but has
anyone argued the ultimate implication?
Well, I don't mean to use this forum to plug my own book, but as a
matter of fact, I have argued that position. I have a chapter
subtitled "How Many Children Had the Duke of Milan?" in my Mutability
and Division on Shakespeare's Stage (2004). I entertain the possibility
that Caliban is Prospero's son by Sycorax, in part to allow the freer
play of the rehearsal room to enter scholarly discussion, but also in
part to revive what's good about A. C. Bradley (hence my mocking
allusion to L. C. Knights's mocking allusion to Bradley and his fellow
character critics).
Yu Jin Ko
Wellesley College
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From: Joseph Egert <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 22 Sep 2005 20:42:45 +0000
Subject: 16.1587 Caliban's Father
Comment: Re: SHK 16.1587 Caliban's Father
Bruce Young remains unconvinced as to Myriad Man's anagrammatic
playfulness. There is little question Montaigne's "cannibal" figured
prominently in the monster's moniker. I'd only emphasize Bruce's own
concession: "the various allusions are not necessarily mutually exclusive."
Time to unleash Ariel, Bruce.
("You forgot "SEER"),
joSEph egERt
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