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  • proper noun A natural satellite of the planet Uranus

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Named after Caliban's mother in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

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Examples

  • Brathwaite’s output during the eighties and early nineties engaged something he called the Sycorax mode of writing — an aesthetic that combines bit-map fonts, a complex of typological accidents and inventions, and hints of concrete verse, combined with a greater and greater shift towards a sometimes invented Caribbean “creole” or “patwa” to produce dense, intellectually challenging, emotionally raw and complex, works that blurred the line between history, memoir, poetics and theoretical texts.

    I’m Okay, I’m Just Floundering : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • I'm thinking, for example, of "Bad Wolf", where his decisions in "The Long Game" set up a situation worse than what he fixed; or "The Stolen Earth", when Harriet Jones points out that she was right to destroy the Sycorax ship.

    Your Freudian Slip Is Showing...BBC America's Doctor Who Site rabid1st 2009

  • Di Donato has an opportunity to exhibit fireworks as Caliban's aggrieved mother, Sycorax.

    Howard Kissel: The Enchanted Island Howard Kissel 2012

  • The cast includes starry names including Plácido Domingo as Neptune and Joyce DiDonato as the sorceress Sycorax.

    A Voice Perfect for Playing Kings, Demons and Gods 2011

  • Di Donato has an opportunity to exhibit fireworks as Caliban's aggrieved mother, Sycorax.

    Howard Kissel: The Enchanted Island Howard Kissel 2012

  • Checking off the Baroque boxes, "The Enchanted Island" lurched from jolly, frothy coloratura for Ariel (soprano Danielle de Niese) to a revenge aria for Sycorax (mezzo Joyce DiDonato), and laments for Demetrius (tenor Paul Appleby) and Helena (soprano Layla Claire).

    Promoting the Baroque In an ADHD World Heidi Waleson 2012

  • Those who follow Dr. Who would remember Harriet Jones who became the Prime Minister and had ordered Torchwood to shoot the retreating Sycorax ship during their attempted invasion.

    Torchwood Series 3: Day Three Episode Review « Monster Scifi Show Blog 2009

  • Those who follow Dr. Who would remember Harriet Jones who became the Prime Minister and had ordered Torchwood to shoot the retreating Sycorax ship during their attempted invasion.

    2009 July 22 « Monster Scifi Show Blog 2009

  • Those who follow Dr. Who would remember Harriet Jones who became the Prime Minister and had ordered Torchwood to shoot the retreating Sycorax ship during their attempted invasion.

    2009 July « Monster Scifi Show Blog 2009

  • Di Donato has an opportunity to exhibit fireworks as Caliban's aggrieved mother, Sycorax.

    Howard Kissel: The Enchanted Island Howard Kissel 2012

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