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by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation by Andrea Maffei (1798 - 1885)

No more dams I'll make for fish
Language: English 
No more dams I'll make for fish;
  Nor fetch in firing
  At requiring;
Nor scrape trenchering, nor wash dish.
  'Ban, 'Ban, Cacaliban
  Has a new master, get a new man.
Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom, hey-day, freedom!

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Text Authorship:

  • by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in The Tempest, Act II, Scene 2 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Caliban", 1937-8 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Andrea Maffei) , no title, first published 1869


Researcher for this page: Barbara Miller

This text was added to the website: 2013-04-20
Line count: 7
Word count: 37

Pesci al vivajo più non darò
Language: Italian (Italiano)  after the English 
«Pesci al vivajo più non darò;
    Più legna al foco non porterò,
    Nè più la mensa sparecchierò,
    Nè piatti e vasi più laverò.»
    Can‐Can‐Can Ca liban mutò padrone.
Libertà, libertà! Viva la cara
Libertà! Viva! viva!

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Text Authorship:

  • by Andrea Maffei (1798 - 1885), no title, first published 1869 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in The Tempest, Act II, Scene 2
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

    [ None yet in the database ]


Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-05-09
Line count: 7
Word count: 36

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