...peopled else This isle with Calibans. PROSPERO Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, Took pains...But thy vile race, Though thou didst learn, had that in't which good natures Could not abide to be with. Therefore wast thou Deservedly confin'd into this...

...— is not in their best interests. Consider Miranda's judgment of her attempts to educate Caliban: I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...But thy vile race, Though thou didst learn, had that in't which good natures Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou Deservedly confin'd to this...

...peopled else This isle with Calibans. Miranda: Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, Took pains...brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them know. But thy vile race, Though thou didst learn, had that in't which good natures Could not abide...

...linguistic castration onto her debased Other: Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, Took pains...thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. (1.2.353-58) By calling Caliban a...

...christening Pirie-Gordon "Caliban," in reference to that passage in The Tempest when Prospero says: ... I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I informed thy purposes With words. His envy might almost be pardoned, for publishers were once more...

...Miranda, taught him to know himself, understand his own worth and articulate his feelings. Miranda I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile race, Though thou didst learn, had...

...16-39; Baldo 1995; Walch 1996), which Miranda's speech to Caliban a little later will make explicit: when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, 1 endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. (L2.357-60) Such echoes identify the operation...

...Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thce, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other: when tliou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd...

...else This isle with Calibans. PROSPERO: Abhorred slave. 350 Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, Took pains...but thy vile race, Though thou didst learn, had that in't which good natures Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou Deservedly confin'd into this...

...colonized Caribbean and the notions of linguistic superiority that underpinned that colonization: ... I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. (act i, scene 2, lines 353-58) Jean Baptiste du Tertre A similar depiction, consonant with the same...