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Caliban (/ ˈ k æ l ɪ b æ n / KAL-i-ban), the subhuman son of the sea witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.. His character is one of the few Shakespearean figures to take on a life of its own "outside" Shakespeare's own work: [1] as Russell Hoban put it, "Caliban is one of the hungry ideas, he's always looking for someone to word him into being ...
Caliban is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #148 (Aug. 1981), by writer Chris Claremont and artist Dave Cockrum .
A mooncalf (or moon-calf) is a monstrous birth, the abortive fetus of a cow or other farm animal.The term was occasionally applied to an abortive human fetus.. The term derives from the once widespread superstition, present in many European folk traditions, that such malformed creatures were the product of the sinister influence of the Moon on fetal development.
Caliban is a creator-owned comic book series, blending the science fiction and horror genres. The series was created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Facundo Percio , and published by Avatar Press as a seven-issue limited series in 2014 .
Caliban (Marvel Comics), a mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe; Isaac Asimov's Caliban, the first of a trilogy of science-fiction novels by Roger MacBride Allen; Caliban (Arduin dungeon), a dungeon module from the Arduin series; Calibans are native lifeforms in Forty Thousand in Gehenna, a science fiction novel by CJ Cherryh
Caliban "Cal" Leandros; Caliban is the result of his mother mating with an otherworldly creature, a Grendel (Auphe). He is, as Thurman describes him, "half-human, half-monster, and all attitude." [5] Cal inherited his Greek-Romani mother's raven hair, but has the pale skin of his father. Technically, Cal begins the books as 17 years old, but he ...
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Caliban also gives a lengthy monologue in the style of Henry James in W.H. Auden's long poem The Sea and the Mirror, a meditation on the themes of The Tempest. Ernest Renan's philosophical drama Caliban represents the struggle between aristocratic and democratic principles, represented by Prospero and Caliban.