The Tempest: Caliban, the Prospero Problem, and Poe

Most Shakespeare scholars would probably say that Shakespeare didn’t write horror. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and histories. And sonnets. For those who would say that he wrote horror, most would say Macbeth is the beginning and end of it. Macbeth has the uncanny, it has bodily violence, it has psychopathology, and, of course, it has witches. Oh! And …