HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Antonio De Nebrija, Abracadabra, Sea Venture
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Language is the partner to empire. antonio de nebrija, grammatica de la lengua. 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! caliban to prospero in the tempest (line. 363-365: skeptical of the power of language. Colonization changing both sides: other effects of empire you can"t see: the changes that happened within. Anonymous map based on one by ortelius (!6th-centuyr flemish cartographer), enclosed within the visor of a fool"s cap. Literature is well suited to see the empire within: deals exclusively with language. Words that refer to unreal world evidence for how imagination, literature, and empire within works. Businessman, theatrical entrepreneur with colonial investments writing at dawn of (later) british empire. Introduced over 1700 new words into english in response to colonial expansion/trade. Romeo and juliet was one of the earliest plays shakespeare wrote.
