 | William Shakespeare, Dinah Jurksaitis - 2003 - 156 pages
...look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on't? Live you? Or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once...laying Upon her skinny lips. You should be women, 45 And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. MACBETH Speak, if you can; what are... | |
 | Jeannette Sanderson - 2003 - 6 pages
...you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me By each at one her choppy 1 finger laving Upon her skinny lips. You should be women, And yet...your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. The first witch calls Macbeth by his present title, the second witch calls him by someone else's title,... | |
 | Cambridge University Press - 2003 - 640 pages
...regarded and treated as a witch; or a patient with a disease of the brain was put in chains and punished. 'You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.' So said Banquo, and though our law has advanced in kindliness, it has made little progress toward understanding... | |
 | Tanya Grosz, Linda Wendler - 2003 - 72 pages
...Macbeth d. Duncan I. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair. We hover through the fog and filthy air." 2. "You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so." 3. "Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear your favours nor vour hate." it 4. "My thought, whose... | |
 | J. Philip Newell - 2003 - 148 pages
...witches speaks of the distortion of what is natural. As Macbeth 's companion Banquo says to them, . . .You should be women; And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. (Macbeth I 3 44-6) And just as their appearance is unnatural, so is their prophetic greeting. It is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2003 - 60 pages
...so wild in their attire, That look not liKe th'fnhabitants o'fr'earth, Andyetareon't?You should b* women And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. Who are these weird looking people? They looK like Women, but they can't be they've got beards. AH... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2004 - 164 pages
...not like th'inhabitants o'th'earth, 40 And yet are on't? — Live you, or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me By each at once...women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret 45 That you are so. Macbeth Speak if you can: what are you? First Witch All hail Macbeth, hail to thee.... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - 2004 - 460 pages
...withered, and so wild in their attire, That look not like th'inhabitants o'th' earth And yet are on't?. . . You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so — (1.3.37-44) But the scene is a wild heath. When Macbeth enters, the "weird sisters" greet him in... | |
 | Piotr Sadowski - 2003 - 336 pages
...and otherworldly (1.3.40-41), belies their female sex, causing confusion and apprehension in Banquo: "you should be women, / And yet your beards forbid me to interpret / That you are so" (4547). The witches' cauldron, this hell-broth betokening chaos and destruction, is an antithesis of... | |
 | Willy Maley, Andrew Murphy, Andrew D. Murphy - 2004 - 228 pages
...'barbaros' or bearded, a meaning activated when Banquo exclaims upon first encountering the witches: 'you should be women / And yet your beards forbid me to interpret / That you are so' (1.3.43-45). Another more authentic etymology traced 'barbarian' to the Greek for a nonGreek speaker:... | |
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Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. 
