Shakespeare's tragedy of Macbeth; with introduction and notes explanatory and critical for use in schools and classes - Brossura

Shakespeare, William

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1458974561 ISBN 13: 9781458974563

Casa editrice: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

Riassunto

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...of mind. Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. Lady M. Come on; gentle my lord,6 Sleek o'er your rugged looks; be bright and jovial. Among your guests to-night. Macb. So shall I, love; And so, I pray, be you: let your remembrance r-, Apply 7 to Banquo; present him eminence, both With eye and tongue:8 unsafe the while, that we Must lave our honours in these flattering streams;9 And make our faces vizards to our hearts, Disguising what they are. Lady M. You must leave this. Macb. O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! ' Thou know'st that Banquo and his Fleance live.10-_'-„ 6 We should say "my gentle lord." The Poet abounds in such inversions. "Good my lord," " dread my lord," " dear my brother," " sweet my sister," and " gracious my lord," are instances. 'Here apply has the force of attach itself. So in Antony and Cleopatra, v. 2: "If you apply yourself to our intents,--which towards you are most gentle,--you shall find a benefit in this change." 8 "Treat him with the highest consideration, or as the most eminent of our guests." Rather strange language, and not very happy withal; but such appears to be the meaning.--Is this a piece of irony? or is it meant as a blind, to keep his wife ignorant and innocent of the new crime on foot? I suspect he is trying to jest offthe pangs of remorse. 9 Flattering streams is streams of flattery. The meaning is, "The very fact of our being obliged thus to use the arts of hypocrisy and dissimulation proves that we are not safe in our seats, not secure in the tenure of our honours: we can retain them only by making our life, even in social intercourse, a studied, continuous lie." 10 Macbeth mistranslates the recoilings and ominous whispers of conscience into prudential and selfish...

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• Editore: RareBooksClub.com
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1458974561
• ISBN 13: 9781458974563
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 64