 | Ian Davies, Ian Gregory, Nicholas McGuinn - 2002 - 202 Seiten
...353-64) And then Caliban utters the famous words of defiance which have resonated throughout literature: You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know...red plague rid you For learning me your language! (The Tempest, I. ii. 365-7) I do not wish to condone Caliban's behaviour here. However, I think it... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 320 Seiten
...Caliban's celebrated imprecation to Prospero, importer and imposer of language, and possibly of diseases: You taught me language, and my profit on't Is I know...red plague rid you For learning me your language! (The Tempest 1.2.365-7) It might be noted, with regard to Caliban's cune, that the plague has its own... | |
 | Shirin Kudchedkar - 2002 - 420 Seiten
...William Shakespeare, Caliban, a sub-human creature, reproaches Prospero, the exiled philosopher-king, You taught me language; and my profit on't Is I know...the red plague rid you For learning me your language ... (I. ii. 363) And Caliban seems to be right - no sub-human creature seems to have the faculty of... | |
 | Mary Ann McGrail - 2002 - 200 Seiten
...are slaves. In his first rebellion against Prospero, Caliban rejects Prospero's sovereign language: You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know...red plague rid you For learning me your language. (I.ii.365-7) The curse turns back on itself. Caliban doesn't express himself with a sequential, non-contradictory... | |
 | Samuel Gyasi Obeng, Beverly Hartford - 2002 - 246 Seiten
...subduing him. Consequently and subsequently, Caliban becomes so enraged at being maltreated as to utter: You taught me language, and my profit on't is I know...The red plague rid you for learning me your language (1987:46). Thus Caliban rums Prospero's worldview upside down by employing Prospero's own tongue to... | |
 | Anne Norton - 2002 - 220 Seiten
...repeated. Imperial rule had made the colonized Caliban, in a recurrent figure of postcolonial theory: "You taught me language; and my profit on't / Is,...curse. The red plague rid you / For learning me your language."14 Cesaire, Senghor, Fanon, Kenyatta, and Cabral would do exactly that, and more. They seized... | |
 | Rob Pope - 2002 - 446 Seiten
...wast thou Oeservedly confin'd into this rock, 360 Who hadst deserv'd more than a prison. CALIBAN:YOU taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know...red plague rid you, For learning me your language! PROSPERO: Hag-seed, hence! Fetch us in fuel, Late nineteenth- and earlier-twentieth-century interpretations... | |
 | Derek Cohen - 2003 - 220 Seiten
...his sexual crime. Caliban's curse affirms more than anything else that he is bowed but undefeated: You taught me language, and my profit on't Is I know...red plague rid you For learning me your language. (1, 2, 365-7) The words are spat at Prospero. Cursing is Caliban's emotional salvation; it seems to... | |
 | Alamin M. Mazrui, Alamin Mazrui, Willy Mutunga - 2004 - 508 Seiten
...Prospero in RACE, GENDER AND CULTURE CONFLICT William Shakespeare's The Tempest who tells Caliban: You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know...red plague rid you, For learning me your language. Similarly, reflecting on her tenure as the Executive Chairperson of the National Endowment for the... | |
 | Roland Robertson, Kathleen E. White - 2003 - 512 Seiten
...languages. Cf. Ngugi wa Thiongo, 1986. Omotoso quotes Caliban from Shakespeare's The Tempest (1,2): You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know...red plague rid you For learning me your language. Osotomo then (p. 33) cites the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe on English: "I have been given this... | |
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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. 
