 | Ana del Sarto, Alicia Ríos, Abril Trigo - 2004 - 834 Seiten
...therefore wast thou Deservedly confined into this rock, Who hadst deserved more than a prison. CALIBAN: 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! (The Tempest 1. 2. 352-365) Prospero interprets... | |
 | Hugo Achugar - 2004 - 294 Seiten
...therefore wast thou Deservedly conjlned into thís rock, Who hadst deserved more than a príson. Caliban: 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! (Shakespeare, w. 353-366, pp. 19-20) El... | |
 | Erica Fudge - 2004 - 264 Seiten
...Miranda, is to teach him how to speak. In Caliban's case, speech allows him to attack his benefactor: "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is I know how to curse." Prospero represents the failure of his project as the impossibility of inculcating superior... | |
 | Nathan Grant - 2004 - 253 Seiten
...enslaved. He yearns to hurl curses against Prospero for having him bound in this discursive prison-house: "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!" (I. ii. 362-65) In the tradition of... | |
 | Lord Peter Tamas Bauer - 2004 - 172 Seiten
...divesting the West of resources, not with the effects of its donations. VII The Liberal Death Wish 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! Shakespeare, The Tempest Liberals, Malcolm... | |
 | Chris Ackerley, S. E. Gontarski - 2004 - 722 Seiten
...let me be silent" (44). This echoes Caliban's malediction to Prospero in The Tempest(l.ii.365-67): "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!" Clov might offer some exposition of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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. 
