Half Fish, Half Monster: Shakespeare’s Caliban and the Performance of Natural History

Starting around the time of Shakespeare’s birth, a group of naturalists engaged in a collective enterprise to enumerate and distinguish strange varieties in the new world, including what were thought to be monsters and supernatural beings. Although this controversy would lead to the idea that human...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christopher Leslie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2013-06-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/519