Caliban and the Rhetoric of Sincerity: Postcolonialism, Performance, and the Self

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....

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Published in:Christianity & literature
Main Author: Held, Joshua R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2017]
In: Christianity & literature
RelBib Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
TJ Modern history
Further subjects:B CALIBAN (Fictitious character)
B Postcolonialism
B Rhetoric
B Sincerity
B Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
B Performance
B TEMPEST, The (Poem : Shakespeare). Caliban
B Caliban
B Soliloquy
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2056-5666
Contains:Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0148333117729686