...known on't ; I have use for it." Act ui. sc. 2. " By my soul, I'm glad on't." — Act iv. sc. 1 . " You taught me language ; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse." — Tempest, act i. sc. 2. "And yet he would be king on't." — Act 5i.se. 1 . " This tempest, Dashing...

...Tcnown on't ; I have use for it." Act iii. sc. 2. "By my soul, I'm glad on't." — Act iv. sc. 1. " You taught me language ; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse." — Tempest, act i. sc. 2. " And yet he would be king on't." — Act ii. sc. 1. " This tempest, Dashing...

...enslaved. He yearns to hurl curses against Prospero for having him bound in this discursive prison-house: "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. 362-65) In the tradition of every enslaved...

...'known'). Caliban's famous reply to Prospero's speech (does EG intend the reader to remember it?) is: 'You taught me language; and my profit on't | Is, I know how to curse' (l. ii. 365-6). The change of wording endows the adolescent Gösse's purposes with greater agency....

...Miranda, is to teach him how to speak. In Caliban's case, speech allows him to attack his benefactor: "You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is I know how to curse." Prospero represents the failure of his project as the impossibility of inculcating superior human values...

...learn the colonizer's language before he or she can even think of articulating his or her own speech: "You taught me language; and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse." Just as in Brazil the development of the parodic chanchada genre can be seen as a response to the impossibility...

...discussed by both authors. She quoted Caliban, in Shakespeare's The Tempest, saying to his master Prospero, "You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse." She drew an analogy between language in Shakespeare's quote and technology in today's global economy....

...its lies, Oh damn those ugly heathens; Damn their beauty and their spies, And take me back to heaven. You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. . . . Oh Mr. Motto Fu Manchu Kung Fu ninja chopping you Charlie Chan chink and jap man —The Tempest...

...Sorgfalt nicht profitieren kann; sein neuerworbenes Wissen ist ihm wenig dienlich, wie er selbst anmerkt: "You taught me language, and my profit on't // Is, I know how to curse."68 Caliban ist so gesehen ein Vorläufer der Angry Young Men. Der Caliban und Clegg gemeinsame...

...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 For learning me your language! (The Tempest act 1, scene 2, lines 351-64) Like the audiences of the Indian tragedies,...