Mrs. Caliban: A Feminist Postmodernist Tempest?

Although in a New York Times Book Review interview Rachel Ingalls has denied that her 1982 novel Mrs. Caliban echoes The Tempest, the parallels between the two works are too compelling to resist (Miller 7).' Ingalls's text, by intimately connecting its monster with its female protagonist,...

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Published in:Critique - Bolingbroke Society 2000, Vol.41 (4), p.391-402
Main Author: Bach, Rebecca Ann
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
British & Irish literature
English literature
Feminism
Influence
Ingalls, Rachel
Literary criticism
Novels
Postmodernism
Shakespeare plays
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
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Summary:Although in a New York Times Book Review interview Rachel Ingalls has denied that her 1982 novel Mrs. Caliban echoes The Tempest, the parallels between the two works are too compelling to resist (Miller 7).' Ingalls's text, by intimately connecting its monster with its female protagonist, comments on the inequalities that underlie and pervade Shakespeare's text. But Mrs. Caliban is also distinctly a late-twentieth-century creation that continually questions its own premises. Is its monster real? The novel refuses to answer. 2
ISSN:0011-1619
1939-9138
DOI:10.1080/00111610009601600