Caliban changing interpretations over time Flashcards
1
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Pepy’s diary entry, May 11th 1668
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- Caliban is a ‘monster’
- was presented as deformed
2
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Davenant and Dryden production
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- Caliban becomes Trinculo’s subordinate
- emphasised comedy
3
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Vaughan and Vaughan
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- ‘Caliban’s grotesque deformities were not the proper vehicle for good-natured wit’
4
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1756 David Garrick production
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- New Operatic Tempest in which Shakespeare’s lines are cut to include 32 songs
5
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1890 Frank Benson
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- spent hours watching monkeys and baboons in the zoo
- missing link in Darwin’s theory of evolution
- post colonial interpretation
6
Q
New York style
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- punkrocker
7
Q
Augsburg
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- black slave
8
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Conneticut
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- Prospero’s repressed libido
9
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Los Angeles
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- American Indian
10
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Mermaid Theatre 1970
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- directed by Johnathon Miller
- cast black actor, Rudolph Walker
- ex-African degraded into New World slave for Prospero’s benefit
11
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21st century productions
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- calming of colonial metaphor
