...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...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, Miranda pities...

...for his ingratitude. For Caliban, however, Prospero's very beneficence is the crux of his cruelty: "You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I...red plague rid you for learning me your language!"' 7 As the reckonings with Caliban suggest, the European colonization of the Caribbean involved uprooting...

...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...red plague rid you, For learning me your language! (I. ii. 365-7) It has to be read in the context of India's struggle for freedom and English education;...

...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...red plague rid you For learning me your language! (I, ii, 365-367) II linguaggio, che distingue l'umana capacità di rappresentare pensieri, bisogni,...

...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...red plague rid you For learning me your language!" It was Belawadi who took us deeper into the Indianness of Caliban, and so into the play's meaning for...

...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...red plague rid you For learning me your language. It would appear that although Caliban may be controlled by his master's voice, he is not controlled...

...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...red plague rid you For learning me your language! One of the greatest ornaments of a good education is that one learns proper speech, but Caliban despises...

...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...red plague rid you For learning me your language. (53) For Baker, the ownership of black bodies that is at the core of chattel slavery has, like spirit...

...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...red plague rid you for learning me your language! And yet, Caliban proceeds: I must obey. His art is of such pow'r, It would control my dam's god, Setebos....

...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...red plague rid you for learning me your language! — (Caliban's reply to Miranda, Tempest I. ii. 363-67) There is an independent pleasure in clever...