...Prospero by editors of the play: Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile race Though thou didst learn - had...

...group membership. In Shakespeare's The Tempest, the magician Prospero tells his slave Caliban: [. . .] I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known [. . .] Through the extraordinary power of language,...

...as she speaks: Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take. Being capable of all ills! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but would gabble like A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes With words that made them known. But...

...enslaved and Prospero seeks to exercise greater control over him by teaching him English. Prospero: I pitied thee Took pains to make thee speak, taught...meaning, but wouldst gabble, like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that make them known. Caliban: You taught me language, and my profit...

...di insegnare la lingua umana a Calibano, di fornirgli riferimenti culturali, istruirlo sulla vita: I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes With words that made them known. (I, 2, 352-7) E benché le prime manifestazioni...

...Elizabethan age, as testified by Miranda's words to Caliban, the archetypical colonial subject ("I . . . Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour/...own meaning, but wouldst gabble like/ A thing most brutish"21). It is ironical perhaps, but certainly not strange, that the first king of Scotland and...

...When thou didst not, savage, Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness will nottaKe, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speaK, taught thee each hour One thing or other. You disgusting creature- nothing could make you good. You're completely evil! I felt sorry for you...

...communicating his purpose. Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. ( The Tempest, Act I, Scene ii) He has learned...