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- Title
Caliban and the Rhetoric of Sincerity: Postcolonialism, Performance, and the Self.
- Authors
Held, Joshua R.
- Abstract
Building on scholarship regarding sincerity and regarding Caliban in Shakespeare’s Tempest, I explore how rhetoric inflects the potential sincerity of the character’s final statement—“I’ll be wise hereafter, / And seek for grace”—which has generated widespread scholarly disagreement. Although Caliban may appear more sincere (his act 2 soliloquy) or insincere (his volte-face responses to Prospero in act 1) in some portions of the play than in others, his development highlights not a reified sincerity or insincerity but the mercurial potential of the self—through varied inner forces such as reason and the passions—to use the notion of sincerity as a cover for selfish ends.
- Subjects
POSTCOLONIALISM; CALIBAN (Fictional character); TEMPEST, The (Poem : Shakespeare). Caliban; SOLILOQUY; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616
- Publication
Christianity & Literature, 2017, Vol 67, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
0148-3331
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0148333117729686