...therefore wast thou Deservedly confined into this rock, Who hadst deserved more than a prison. CALIBAN You taught me language, and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you 365 For learning me your language! PROSPERO Hag-seed, hence! Fetch us in fuel, and be quick, thou'rt...

...the confident articulateness that allows her to withstand him. Caliban can only revile his teacher: You taught me language, and my profit on't Is I know how to curse. Liza makes better profit from her teaching: she learns how to talk back. Shaw's reworks the Ovidian...

...of the Watergate transcripts, we realize how many Calibans there are who are quite right in saying: You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. But there are still some Prosperos who have learned how to control the magic of words and make it part...

...bigger light, and how the less, / That burn by day and night” (lines 337—39), but concludes angrily, “You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is I know how to curse” (lines 366—67). In Browning's version, Caliban also learns speech from his masters, but employs it...

...all the subjects that you have Which first was mine own king and he has lost his savage innocence: You taught me language and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse so that he is vulnerable to further corruption when he comes into contact with the civilized vices...

...Elephant Man Language: Caliban 'Curses are like young chickens, They always come home to roost.' (Southey) 'You taught me language, and my profit on't Is I know how to curse.' (Act Ì Scene 2, lines 364-5) Language Caliban says on lines 3-4 of his first speech in Act 2 Scene...

...of suggestions that those who resist colonialism are simply taking up Caliban's curse: “You gave me language / And my profit on't is I know how to curse.” 40. Some of Sibusisiwe Makhanya's letters are reprinted in Marks (1987); for her sister's autobiography,...

...let me be silent" (44). This echoes Caliban's malediction to Prospero in The Tempest (I.ii.365-67): "You taught me language; and my profit on't / Is,...red plague rid you / For learning me your language!" Clov might offer some exposition of what is finished: the morning ritual, "day after day," or, apocalyptically,...

...education by Prospero was perhaps the best indicator of the power of words and of language. Says Caliban: "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is I...red plague rid you / For learning me your language!" (1.2, 362-64). In this production's interpretation, Prospero teaches Caliban the words "food" and "love,"...

...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...