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The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in –, and thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone.
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His enemies, his one-time helper Gonzalo and Ferdinand, son of Alonso, end up on the island and are manipulated in various magical ways by Prospero, with the upshot that Ferdinand and Miranda fall in love and the enemies are entranced, tortured and, at length, forgiven. At the end, Ariel is set free, everyone sails off to Naples and Prospero steps out of his own play and asks to be released from it: perhaps the most puzzling ending to any Shakespeare play.

Prospero uses his arts — magic arts, arts of illusion — not just for entertainment, though he does some of that as well, but for the purposes of moral and social improvement. That being said, it must also be said that Prospero plays God. With a slight twist, Prospero might be the Grand Inquisitor, torturing people for their own good. We — the audience — are inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, and to see him as a benevolent despot.

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Or we are inclined most of the time. But Caliban is not without insight. The first thing I did when starting this project was to reread the play. Then I read it again. Then I got my hands on all the films of it that I could find, and watched them. Then I read the play again. Then came the usual episodes of panic and chaos: why had I foolishly agreed to write a book in this series?

Why had I chosen The Tempest? Really it was impossible! What was the modern-day equivalent of a magician marooned on an island for 12 years with a now adolescent daughter?

And what about the flying air spirit? And the Caliban figure? Calm, calm, I told myself.

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I read the play again, this time backwards. In what has he been imprisoned? I started counting up the prisons and imprisonments in the book. There are a lot of them. In fact, every one of the characters is constrained at some point in the play. This was suggestive. The play is about illusions: magic is the only weapon Prospero has. So I decided to set my novel in a prison. Other questions quickly arose. How to suggest that quality in a modern novel? Is the island a place of trial? Maybe both. And the characters: is Prospero wise and kind, or a tetchy old crank?

Is Miranda sweet and pure, or a more savvy, tougher girl who knows about wombs and abuses and vilifies Caliban? Is Caliban himself the Freudian id? Is he Natural Man?

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Is he a victim of colonial oppression, as he is frequently played these days? But what about his rapist tendencies? Is he bad by nature? The Tempest is also a musical: it has more songs and dances and music in it than any other Shakespeare play. The main musician is Ariel, but Caliban also has musical talents. So I incorporated a lot of song and dance numbers in the novel. I called my novel Hag-Seed , which is one of the names used by Prospero when he is railing at Caliban, and Caliban is cursing him right back.

Why name it after Caliban rather than Prospero? Hag-Seed is set in the year , in Canada, in a region somewhat close to a town where there is an actual Shakespeare festival. Act 1, Scene 1 — the actual tempest, with sailors running around and yelling — is in progress on screen, when suddenly there are sounds of a prison riot. Winter has returned along with cold weather.

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