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Yet Fitzgerald identifies a contradiction: Prospero will inform, Ariel will entertain, but Caliban is to be educated—two active figures and one passive.
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Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
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First Known Use
circa 1616, in the meaning defined above
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“Caliban.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Caliban. Accessed 2 Oct. 2023.
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