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| | Talking to William Shakespeare |
 | | Caliban, I have to confess, is a very tricky character indeed. |
 | | As I put it in Act IV, scene 1, Caliban is: ‘A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains, Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost. |
 | | It will not have escaped your notice that he speaks some wonderful poetry, and at times his language is full of pathos and power, and his plight may arouse your twenty-first century emotions of pity and righteous anger. |
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