 | Margaret A. Majumdar - 2007 - 344 pages
...not that intended by them. As he says, if he has become fluent, it is all the better to curse them. 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, Act I, Scene ii) Learning... | |
 | Steven Pinker - 2007 - 522 pages
...stranger to earthy imprecations himself, had Caliban speak for the entire human race when he said, "You taught me language, and my profit on't is, I know how to curse." GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Mistaken identity is a plot device so revealing of human foibles that Shakespeare... | |
 | Paul Christopher Johnson - 2007 - 343 pages
...and with the correct tools, especially the correct words. Caliban upbraids Prospero in The Tempest: 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! And yet, Caliban proceeds: I must obey.... | |
 | James R. Simmons, Jr - 2007 - 500 pages
...part, been revealed to us. But let us not fly in the face of benignant nature, and say like Caliban, "You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse."1 "If used aright the recannot [sic] be a doubt that this magnificent power might, in all its... | |
 | Jerome Neu - 2007 - 304 pages
...effeminate And in my temper soft'ned valor's steel! (III. 1.107—1 13) SHAKESPEARE'S INSULT LANGUAGE 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! — (Caliban's reply to Miranda, Tempest... | |
 | Jessica Adams - 2007 - 242 pages
...conditions that render their entire play a tripling. Caliban speaks his possession as a metacurse: 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. (53) For Baker, the ownership of black... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2007 - 370 pages
...make him sweat for it. There's also a link here -with Caliban's learning of 'language' in The Tempest: 'You taught me language and my profit on't is / I know how to curse', and Katherine does exactly that. So these strands seem to emanate from a preoccupation -with... | |
 | Robert Fisk - 2008 - 544 pages
...Prospero's daughter, the colonial slave who turns against the fruits of civilisation that were offered him. 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! Yet Caliban must 'obey' Prospero because... | |
 | Elrena Evans, Caroline Grant - 2008 - 290 pages
...like everyone else. All this calls to mind the accusation Caliban hurls at Prospero in The Tempest: "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is I know how to curse." We did try to teach him not only language, but also — broken down into component parts, reinforced... | |
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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. 
