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This thing of darkness: Caliban and the Creature from Frankenstein
The Tempest at His Majesty's Theatre, Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Caliban. Charles A. Buchel. Tatler, 1904. Folger Shakespeare Library.
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This thing of darkness: Caliban and the Creature from Frankenstein

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Austin Tichenor

As Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein” marks its 200th anniversary (and with Halloween on its way), Austin Tichenor explores the parallels between the Creature from “Frankenstein” and Caliban from “The Tempest” and their fictional creators: Frankenstein and Prospero–as well as what…