This chapter assesses Mrs. Caliban (1982), a novella by Rachel Ingalls, as an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1611). Shakespeare’s play appeared at a liminal moment, when the isolate subject of the Enlightenment was just materializing. Ingalls’s adaptation tracks the legacies of the alienated self, exposing a world awash in fragmentation and loneliness. In this bleak landscape, humans drift in isolation from each other and the rest of nature. Ingalls’s protagonist, Dorothy, embodies the pains and dangers of a solitary, meaning-sapped existence. Dorothy’s lover, Larry (amphibious escapee from a scientific institute), offers the pleasures of connection and intimacy. But he might be a hallucination generated by Dorothy’s damaged psyche. By unsettling the relationship between the real and the fantastical, Mrs. Caliban puts a fresh spin on the “cognitive estrangement” often ascribed to speculative fiction. In so doing, the novella urges an ecophenomenological awareness, whereby the self is understood to be embedded in the world and reliant on storytelling to make sense of experience.