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" em. Cal. I must eat my dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou earnest first, Thou strok'dst me, and mad'st much of me ; wouldst give me Water with berries in't ; and teach me how To name the bigger light,... "
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and ... - Page 54
by William Shakespeare - 1821
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Extensions: Essays in English Studies from Shakespeare to the Spice Girls

Sue Hosking, Dianne Schwerdt - English literature - 1999 - 228 pages
...thou cam 'st first, Thou strok 'st me, and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in 't; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night . . . (I,ii,333-338) It is worth noting that Prospero makes no attempt to rebut Caliban's claim of...
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Literature

Peter Widdowson - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 246 pages
...factor in this gradual dispossession is teaching Caliban the colonisers' language: they 'teach me how/To name the bigger light, and how the less, /That burn by day and night. And then I loved thee . . .' (331—41, passim, my emphasis). Made complicit in his own enslavement by linguistic...
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Adaptations of Shakespeare: A Critical Anthology of Plays from the ...

Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - English drama - 2000 - 330 pages
...mine by Sycorax my mother Which thou takst from me. When thou camst first, Thou strokst me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't;...how the less, That burn by day and night. And then I loved thee And showed thee all the qualities of the isle, The fresh springs, brine pits, barren place...
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 60 pages
...by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me, wouldst give me Water with berries in't,...how the less, That burn by day and night. And then I loved thee, And showed thee all the qualities of the isle: The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place...
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English Literature for AQA A

Tony Childs, Jackie Moore - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 196 pages
...dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou earnest first, Thou strok'dst me and mad'st much of me; wouldst give...me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, 10 That burn by day and night . . . There are a number of features to notice here, which help to establish...
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"The Tempest" and Its Travels

Peter Hulme, William Howard Sherman - Drama - 2000 - 340 pages
...had given him (Caliban) water with berries to eat: When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't,...teach me how To name the bigger light and how the less . . . (In332-5) Lamming notes that Caliban recalls this as he is experiencing Prospero 's mistreatment....
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The Tempest and Its Travels

Peter Hulme - Colonies in literature - 2000 - 344 pages
...had given him (Caliban) water with berries to eat: When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't,...teach me how To name the bigger light and how the less . . . (1.11.332-5) Lamming notes that Caliban recalls this as he is experiencing Prospero's mistreatment....
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The American Studies Anthology

Richard P. Horwitz - History - 2001 - 420 pages
...dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'sl from me. When thou earnest first, Thou strok'dst me and mad'st much of me, wouldst give...That burn by day and night; and then I lov'd thee And show'd thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile....
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Four Late Plays

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 436 pages
...by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me: when ihou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me, and made much of me, wouldst give me Water with berries in't,...how the less, That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee, And showed thee all the qualities o'th'isle, THE TEMPEST 1,2 CALIBAN MIRANDA The fresh...
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On Post-Colonial Futures: Transformations of a Colonial Culture

Bill Ashcroft - History - 2001 - 177 pages
...by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me, and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't;...how the less, That burn by day and night: and then I love'd thee, And show'd thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place...
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