Skip to main content

The Folger is closing at 4:30pm on Sunday, February 23, for a staff training exercise. Normal hours will resume when the Folger opens on Tuesday, February 25, at 11:00am.

1 result from Shakespeare and Beyond on

Frankenstein

View 2 results across all blogs
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.
Shakespeare and Beyond

This thing of darkness: Caliban and the Creature from Frankenstein

Posted
Author
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…