Prospero
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Prospero is a fictional character and the protagonist of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
Prospero and Miranda by William Maw Egley
Sycorax
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Sycorax is an unseen character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. She is a vicious and powerful witch and the mother of Caliban, one of the few native inhabitants of the island on which Prospe
Prospero
…em forth, by my so potent Art." - Act V, scene 1. On the island, Prospero becomes master of the monster Caliban, the son of a malevolent witch named Sycorax, and forces Caliban into submission by punishing him with magic if he does not obey. The Tempest is believed to be the last play Shakespeare wrote…
A drawing of Sycorax by Robert Anning Bell.
Medea (1889) by Evelyn De Morgan; Scholars see parallels between Ovid's Medea and Shakespeare's Sycorax.
Prospero's methods of control are very similar to Sycorax's, making the supposed opposition between them less distinct.
Claire Davenport as Sycorax breastfeeds her adult son Caliban, played by Jack Birkett, in Derek Jarman's film version of The Tempest.