Caliban, the original monster and barbarian in The Tempest, has been far removed in both time and interpretations from the original one Shakespeare created four hundred years ago. ... However, gradually assumptions about The Tempest's relations with American colonization accumulated and "American school" of Tempest interpretation began to emerge. ... New editions of The Tempest created a different atmosphere for reading it as a paradigm of exploitation by taking Caliban as a more a less "noble" slave. Interpreting Prospero's book as the symbols of a literate technology with which the...

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