 | Clare Constant, Susan Duberley - 1999 - 96 pages
...more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. I I Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both. They have made themselves,...brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. If we should fail? when Duncan We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not... | |
 | Ronald Hayman - 1999 - 113 pages
...act. Questions like "How many children had Lady Macbeth?" never bother us in the theater. She says: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. This tells us quite a lot about the latitudinal differences between her and Macbeth; it does not tell... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 98 pages
...would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place 52 Did then adhere, and yet you would make both. 53 They have made themselves, and that their fitness...gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you 59 Have done to this. MACBETH If we should fail? LADY MACBETH We fail? 60 But screw your courage to... | |
 | Ed. de Grazia - 2001 - 328 pages
...it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. ... I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. (1.7.49-59) Proving herself to be the 'better man', Lady Macbeth makes Macbeth feel less than one;... | |
 | Susannah York, William Shakespeare - 2001 - 112 pages
...be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves,...me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done... | |
 | Lindsay McNab, Imelda Pilgrim, Marian Slee - 2001 - 208 pages
...themselves and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck and know 20 How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it...brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. 25 MACBETH If we should fail? LADY We fail? MACBETH But screw your courage to the sticking-place And... | |
 | Orson Welles - 2001 - 297 pages
...Welles on Shakespeare LADY MACBETH What beast was't then, That made you break this enterprise to me? I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains outs, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. MACBETH If we should fail? LADY MACBETH We fail? But... | |
 | Roberta S. Kremer - 2001 - 249 pages
...Duncan, says to him: "I have given suck, and know/ How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me;/I would, while it was smiling in my face, /Have plucked...the brains out, had I so sworn/ As you have done to this"9 (1:7, 56-9). In her dream of infanticide, Lady Macbeth is theorizing an invertive passage from... | |
 | Agnes Heller - 2002 - 375 pages
...her femininity. Her imagination is so extremely cruel precisely because her fantasy remains feminine: "I have given suck, and know / How tender 'tis to...brains out, had I so sworn as you / Have done to this" (1.7.54—59). No Richard, no Edmund, no lago, no man could invent or imagine an act of such extreme... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 316 pages
...followed by the most striking and most notorious instance of the image, in Lady Macbeth's infamous lines: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. (1-7-54-9) Clearly this picture of monstrous motherhood encodes a terrifying ferocity, accentuated... | |
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Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both : They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me... 
