 | John Ralston Saul - 2006 - 513 pages
...him to speak. 'I endowed thy purposes with words that made them known/ she says. But Caliban replies: 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! One of the greatest ornaments of a good... | |
 | John Muthyala - 2006 - 232 pages
...wretched half human, half monster, is the central figure. Calibans famous declaration to Prospero — "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse"34 — provides a model for contextualizing the history of colonialism and resistance in the... | |
 | Stephanie Newell - 2006 - 287 pages
...cosmopolitan young writers demonstrated the powerful truth of Caliban's words in Shakespeare's The Tempest: 'You taught me language, and my profit on't | Is, I know how to curse' (I. ii. 363-4). Unlike Caliban, however, the negritude poets did not proclaim in nostalgia and... | |
 | Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn, Vera Alexander - 2006 - 308 pages
...But the sound of Belawadi's Indian English also underlined and localised the politics of the play: "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!" It was Belawadi who took us deeper into... | |
 | David Cowart - 2006 - 266 pages
...the crime?"1 As Shakespeare's Caliban observes (the quotation is a favorite in postcolonial theory), "You taught me language; and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse"(77;e Tempest 1.2.365-66). But what pristine version of Antigua would the author embrace? That... | |
 | Laura Di Michele - 2005 - 380 pages
...valori morali e culturali. La questione della lingua appare determinante anche in questo caso: Cai 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, 365-367) II linguaggio, che distingue... | |
 | N. Krishnaswamy, Lalitha Krishnaswamy - 2006 - 240 pages
...European civilization that wants to enlighten the natives. Caliban's response is very significant: 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. 365-7) It has to be read in the... | |
 | Kingsley Bolton, Braj B. Kachru - 2006 - 360 pages
...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 on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language. It would appear that although Caliban... | |
 | Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Peter Holbrook - 2006 - 980 pages
...period.4 Together with his attempt to rape his language teacher, Miranda, Caliban's speech to Prospero, "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is I know how to curse" ( 1 .2.364-5), reveals the vulnerability of literacy to abuse by those who acquire it as a result... | |
 | Robert Viscusi - 2012 - 296 pages
...dramatized his own distaste for authoritative discourse. He might have been speaking as Caliban: "You have taught me language; and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse" (I, ii, 365-66). That level of frustration grows out of his failure to complete the transvaluation.... | |
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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. 
