 | Georgina Frederica Jackson - 1879 - 648 pagine
...be good mastyr to lytyll Jak, and to lerne hym well.' — Paston Letten, AD 1467, vol. ii. p. 319. ' Cal. You taught me language ; and my profit on't Is,...how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning mo your language ! ' — Tempest, I. ii. 364. See Ptlt. xxv. 4—8 ; cxix. 66. AS iJ-ran; Gönn, lehren,... | |
 | Rachel Rubin - 2000 - 288 pagine
...him language, Caliban utters one of the most famous and potent repudiations of linguistic oppression: "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is,...red plague rid you / For learning me your language!" 100 Caliban takes multiple forms in Gold's novel. The Yiddish language in the text, like Caliban, is... | |
 | Ashley Montagu - 2001 - 388 pagine
...soon follows that notable passage in which the savage cries out to his tutor: CALIBAN [to PROSPERO]: You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know...red plague rid you For learning me your language. I, ii CYMBELINE (1610) CLOTEN: Was there ever man had such luck! When I kiss'd the jack, upon an up-cast... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 458 pagine
...in this country. In Temp. I, ii, 425 (of this ed.), Caliban uses both words, within three lines : ' You taught me Language, and my profit on't Is I know...red plague rid you For learning me your language.' — ED. 13 Behold how like a maid me blufhes heere ! 36 O what authontic and fhew of truth Can cunning... | |
 | Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 pagine
...Therefore wast thou Deservedly confin'd into this rock, who hadst Deserved 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; and be quick, thou'rt best, To answer other business. Shrug'st... | |
 | Martin Banham, James Morel Gibbs, James Gibbs, Femi Osofisan - 2001 - 324 pagine
...Prospero (and possibly Miranda) which begins 'This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,' and concludes: You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know...red plague rid you For learning me your language! Even those writers, such as Fanon and Cesaire, who vociferously rejected Octave Mannoni's positing... | |
 | Angela B. Moorjani, Carola Veit - 2001 - 504 pagine
...Caliban's malediction to Prospero in The Tempest, or in general the colonial's complaint to his master: "You taught me language; and my profit on't / Is....red plague rid you / For learning me your language!" (I. ii. 365-67). Being always already an echo, Clov apparently has no substance, and so no character... | |
 | Bill Ashcroft - 2001 - 177 pagine
...encapsulates the bitter reaction of many colonized peoples to centuries of linguistic and political control: You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know...red plague rid you For learning me your language. This statement has been used time and again as a cry of resistance: a recognition of the power of imperial... | |
 | Kristen Guest - 2001 - 234 pagine
...course of a threatening harangue, that he owes his use of language to the former, Caliban replies: "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is,...curse. The red plague rid you / For learning me your language!"3 This perfectly summed up both the history of European cultural imperialism and the preferred... | |
 | Naoki Sakai, Yukiko Hanawa - 2001 - 404 pagine
...language Miranda has taught him. Of course, Caliban uses it very differently from the way Miranda uses it. "You taught me language; and my profit on't / Is,...curse. The red plague rid you / For learning me your language!"10 My point, however, is that he has to depend upon the language of his dominators even when... | |
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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 ! Pros. 
