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World Service,2 mins
'The first time I read Shakespeare’s The Tempest, I got angry.'
The Cultural FrontlineAvailable for over a year
In a new commission for the Royal Shakespeare Company, British Nigerian poet and playwright Inua Ellams has written a prequel to the Shakespeare’s The Tempest. For The Cultural Frontline, Inua sets out his case for righting- and re-writing- the wrongs of the original play and describes how his version reinvents the character of Caliban. (Photo: Storm at sea Credit: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images)
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