 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 418 Seiten
...thine, Unless it be while some tormenting dream Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils ! R. IU. i. 3. 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. T. i. 2. Now the red pestilence strike... | |
 | Hugo Achugar - 2004 - 262 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... | |
 | Susan M. Collins, Carol L. Graham - 2005 - 311 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... | |
 | Michael Chanan - 2004 - 538 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... | |
 | Faith Nostbakken - 2004 - 195 Seiten
...sometimes he speaks prose along with Stephano and Trinculo. More provocatively, Caliban admits to Prospero, "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse" (1.2.363—364). If Ariel as an unconventional figure is a singer of songs, Caliban is master... | |
 | Ana del Sarto, Alicia R ios, Alicia Ríos, Abril Trigo - 2004 - 818 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... | |
 | Nathan Grant - 2004 - 239 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 - 153 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... | |
 | Arthur Horowitz - 2004 - 227 Seiten
...education by Prospero was perhaps the best indicator of the power of words and of language. Says 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!" (1.2, 362-64). In this production's... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 2004 - 241 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. 
