Biography

Caliban, a fictional character in William Shakespeare's "The Tempest," is the son of the sorceress Sycorax and the only being on his island until the arrival of Prospero and Miranda. He is referenced as another mystical creature, along with Puck, in William Henry Seward's August 22, 1859 letter, which suggests the two are the poetical equivalent of Praxiteles' sculpture, "The Faun."