In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Sycorax was a witch who had been banished to an island where she gave birth to her son Caliban. Sycorax is already dead and gone when The Tempest takes place, and what we know of her comes from Prospero’s angry rantings about the “blue-eyed hag.” Shakespeare does not provide much information about Sycorax other than that she was a witch, she had been banished to the island for her sorcery, she was not executed because of some valuable service she had […]