 | Nadia Lie - Caliban (Fictitious character) - 1997 - 400 pages
...Prospero (Caliban: "Ay, that I will; and I'll be wise hereafter,/ And seek for grace. What a Thrice-double ass/ Was I, to take this drunkard for a God,/ And worship this dull fool!" Vi29497). It could be significant, moreover, that the play was staged on the occasion of Elizabeth... | |
 | Cynthia Lewis - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 268 pages
..."grace," Caliban is at long last reflecting the lessons that experience teaches: "What a thrice-double ass / Was I to take this drunkard for a god, / And worship this dull fool!" (5.1.296-98). Clearly, what Prospero has taken as Caliban's inability to learn has been in truth the... | |
 | Simon Palfrey - Drama - 1997 - 316 pages
...rebelliousness; his vocabulary, at least, stays vigorous and rather ascendant : 'what a thrice double Asse Was I to take this drunkard for a god? And worship this dull foole?' (V. i. 295-7). The point is that Caliban's future is anything but set. It is impossible to... | |
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I'll be wise hereafter, And seek for grace : What a thrice-double ass Was I, to take this drunkard for a god, And worship this dull fool ! Pro. 
