In the 1963 RSC production, Caliban was played by Roy Dotrice. DEFINE TEMPEST PROFESSIONAL
In the 1960 Marlowe Dramatic Society And Professional Players unabridged recording ( Argo Records, 216-218), Caliban is played by Patrick Wymark. 
In the 1960 Hallmark Hall of Fame television adaptation, Caliban was played by Richard Burton. Ralph Richardson played Caliban on radio in a 1933 BBC National Programme production. Notable portrayals įyodor Paramonov as Caliban in The Tempest, Maly Theatre, 1905 Many other, though less notable, suggestions have been made, primarily in the 19th century, including an Arabic word for "vile dog", a Hindu Kalee-ban "satyr of Kalee, the Hindu Proserpine", German Kabeljau ("codfish"), etc. Since 1889, it has been suggested that Shakespeare may have named Caliban after the Tunisian city Calibia (now called Kelibia) that is seen on maps of the Mediterranean dating to 1529. The first Romanichal had arrived in England a century before Shakespeare's time. Īlso popular has been comparison to kaliban or cauliban in the Romani language, which mean black or with blackness. The character may be seen as a satire on "Noble cannibal" from Montaigne's Essays (A.30, "Of Cannibals"). One of the most prominent suggestions concerns Caliban being an anagram of the Spanish word caníbal ( Carib people), the source of cannibal in English. There is a long history of enthusiastic speculation on the name's origin or derivation. Caliban learns that Stephano is neither a god nor Prospero's equal in the conclusion of the play, however, and Caliban agrees to obey Prospero again. Resentful of Prospero, Caliban takes Stephano, one of the shipwrecked servants, as a god and as his new master. Prospero then entraps Caliban and torments him with harmful magic if Caliban does not obey his orders. Caliban confirms this gleefully, saying that if he had not been stopped, he would have peopled the island with a race of Calibans – "Thou didst prevent me, I had peopled else this isle with Calibans" (Act I:ii). 
Prospero explains his harsh treatment of Caliban by claiming that after initially befriending him, Caliban attempted to rape Miranda. Caliban, despite his inhuman nature, clearly loved and worshipped his mother, referring to Setebos as his mother's god, and appealing to her powers against Prospero. īanished from Algiers, Sycorax was left on the isle, pregnant with Caliban, and died before Prospero's arrival. In some traditions, he is depicted as a wild man, or a deformed man, or a beast man, or sometimes a mix of fish and man, a dwarf or even a tortoise. While he is referred to as a calvaluna or mooncalf, a freckled monster, he is the only human inhabitant of the island that is otherwise "not honour'd with a human shape" (Prospero, I.2.283). After his island becomes occupied by Prospero and his daughter Miranda, Caliban is forced into slavery.
Character Ĭaliban is half human, half monster. His character is one of the few Shakespearean figures to take on a life of its own "outside" Shakespeare's own work: as Russell Hoban put it, "Caliban is one of the hungry ideas, he's always looking for someone to word him into being. Caliban ( / ˈ k æ l ɪ b æ n/ KAL-i-ban), son of the witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
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