...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...why she hates him so. 14 A cruel master Cal. You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I knozc how to curse: the red plague rid you, For learning...Pro. Hag-seed, hence! Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou'rt best, To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice' Ifthou neglect'st, or dost unzcillingly...

...languages. Cf. Ngugi wa Thiongo, 1986. Omotoso quotes Caliban from Shakespeare's The Tempest (1,2): You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know...red plague rid you For learning me your language. Osotomo then (p. 33) cites the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe on English: "I have been given this...

...George Felix, a former agit-prop actor, who speaks Caliban's infamous speech on acquired language - 'You taught me language, and my profit on't/ Is I...red plague rid you/ For learning me your language!' (1.2.366-8) - in what Steven Connor has described as a self-consciously 'stagey' section (1996: 188)....