RT Article
T1 Fully Human, Created in God’s Image: Caliban in Shakespeare’s The Tempest
JF Christianity & literature
VO 69
IS 3
SP 378
OP 398
A1 Urban, David V.
LA English
PB Johns Hopkins University Press
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1738956180
AB Responding to various of The Tempest’s characters’ describing Caliban as non-human, as well as the long critical, theatrical, and artistic traditions of presenting Caliban as less than fully human, this essay argues that Caliban’s humanity is established both by Shakespeare’s text and by a theologically informed understanding of Caliban that demonstrates that Caliban bears the image of God. A recognition of Caliban as imago Dei helps us to better appreciate his complex relationships with Prospero, Miranda, and Stephano and to understand his eventual repentance and its redemptive influence upon Prospero in light of the play’s broader Christian vision.
K1 Aquinas
K1 Caliban
K1 Calvin
K1 Cornelius Plantinga
K1 Miranda
K1 Prospero
K1 Shakespeare
K1 The Tempest
K1 Imago Dei
K1 Postcolonial
K1 Theology
DO 10.1353/chy.2020.0039