 | Michael Chanan - 2004 - 564 Seiten
...purposes With words that made them known. And the attitude of the rebellious slave in Caliban's reply: You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language! (Act 1, scene 2) The Tempest has exerted... | |
 | Susan M. Collins, Carol L. Graham - 2005 - 348 Seiten
...discussed by both authors. She quoted Caliban, in Shakespeare's The Tempest, saying to his master Prospero, "You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse." She drew an analogy between language in Shakespeare's quote and technology in today's global... | |
 | Michelle Lee - 2004 - 456 Seiten
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 | Braj B. Kachru - 2005 - 366 Seiten
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 | Laurence Bergreen - 2009 - 501 Seiten
...peoples throughout the world, and Shakespeare dramatizes the encounter with wit and a frisson of horror. You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse: the red plague rid you, For learning me your language! Later, Caliban quotes Pigafetta's account... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 2004 - 308 Seiten
...'known'). Caliban's famous reply to Prospero's speech (does EG intend the reader to remember it?) is: 'You taught me language; and my profit on't | Is, I know how to curse' (l. ii. 365-6). The change of wording endows the adolescent Gösse's purposes with greater agency.... | |
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You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro. 
