Caliban upon Setebos. Or, Natural Theology in the Island

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Caliban upon Setebos. Or, Natural Theology in the Island is a poem writtenby Robert Browning andpublished in the Dramatis Personae poetry collection in 1864.

It's about Caliban , a character from William Shakespeare's The Tempest , and his reflections on Setebos, the brutal god he believes in.

Cultural references

Arno Schmidt's 1964 story Caliban about Setebos alludes to Browning's poem in the title. It is set in the science fiction novels Ilium and Olympos , published in 2004 and 2006, respectivelyby Dan Simmons , where Caliban and Setebos are the antagonists . In Jack London's The Sea Wolf from 1904, Wolf Larsen is described at one point as a setebos.

literature

  • CR Tracy: Caliban Upon Setebos. In: Studies in Philology 35, Issue 3 (1938), pp. 487-499.
  • TL Tebbetts: The Question of Satire in 'Caliban Upon Setebos . In: Victorian Poetry 22, No. 4) (1984), pp. 365-381.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CR Tracy: Caliban Upon Setebos. In: Studies in Philology 35, Issue 3 (1938), p. 487.

Web links

Wikisource: Caliban upon Setebos - full original text on Wikisource  - sources and full texts (English)