Who is Sycorax? The first character in Shakespeare’s “Tempest” to set foot on the island. The problem is that she has no voice. She is barely mentioned by Prospero as a crooked, old, wicked witch who vilely locked Ariel, the spirit of the air, in a tree. But why would she do that? Here, we wouldn’t believe Prospero so much.
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