Miraz

Did You Know?

• The relationship between Miraz and his nephew Prince Caspian resembles that of Claudius and Hamlet in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, as well as Pelias and Jason from Greek mythology.
• In a Christianity Today opinion piece published in 2008, Devin Brown noted that Miraz was aloof and emotionally distant like C. S. Lewis's own father.
• This theme is explored in more detail in Chandler Hanton's dissertation, The Tragedy of Caspian: C. S. Lewis and His Trauma.

Adaptations

In the 1989 BBC adaptation, Miraz was played by Robert Lang. In the 2008 cinematic adaptation, he was portrayed by Sergio Castellitto, an accomplished Italian actor whose casting was hypothesized by IGN as intended to give the Telmarines a Latin-Mediterranean ethnic flavor. The New York Times review noted that the film's major source of dramatic energy was Miraz, played with malignant grandeur by Castellitto. Movie critic Mick LaSalle, while panning the movie, found Miraz square-shouldered and decisive and, by medieval king standards, probably not all that bad. In an extended critique, Steven D. Boyer complained that the rivalry between Caspian and Peter is nowhere in the books but is rather a reflection of Miraz's original character.