 | Amanda Eubanks Winkler - 2006 - 250 pages
...over onto the late seventeenth-century stage, with men continuing to play these roles. As Banquo says, "You should be women / And yet your beards forbid me to interpret / That you are so" [I.iii.45-47]. The assignment of these roles to adult actors marginalized the theatrical hag from the... | |
 | Will Fisher - 2006 - 94 pages
...Shakespeare's Macbeth illustrates this point. He addresses the "weird/weyward sisters" directly and says: "You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so."91 In this line, Banquo insists that because these figures have beards, they cannot be "women"... | |
 | Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Peter Holbrook - 2006 - 980 pages
...277. 23. Or hulking great fully-grown men in drag but blue chinned: I strongly suspect that Banquo's "you should be women, / And yet your beards forbid me to interpret so" was played for laughs and with a heavy wink across the footlights, and that the audience thereafter... | |
 | Joan Fitzpatrick - 2007 - 188 pages
...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...your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. ( 1 .3.37-45) The weird sisters, as they are referred to throughout the play, are neither earthly nor... | |
 | Gunnar Olsson - 2010 - 569 pages
...inhabitants o' th' earth, That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her chappy finger laying Upon her skinny lips: you should be...your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. (1.3.39-47) And as the ambiguous witches vanish into the two-valued universe of identity, difference... | |
 | Sam Dowling - 2007 - 90 pages
...you aught 14 That man may question. You seem to understand me By each at once upon her choppy fingers laying Upon her skinny lips you should be women And...your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so MACBETH Speak if you can what are you 1st WITCH All hail Macbeth hail to thee Thane of Glamis 2nd WITCH... | |
 | Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen - 2007 - 238 pages
...fantastical or that indeed / which outward ye show' (1.3.50-2). Even their gender is, notoriously, ambiguous: 'you should be women / and yet your beards forbid me to interpret / that you are so' (1.3.43-5). In a sense, Macbeth's eventual defeat by Macduff serves as a confirmation of Banquo's scepticism.... | |
 | James R. Hartman - 2007 - 518 pages
...You seem to understand me, By each at once her wrinkled finger laying Upon her skinny lips. You must be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. (Witches have beards.) Speak if you can. What are you? FIRST WITCH: SECOND WITCH: THIRD WITCH: BANQUO:... | |
 | Martina Oster, Waltraud Ernst - 2008 - 324 pages
...Wirkungen zugeschrieben.4 Lady Macbeth wird im Stücktext as eine Frau charakterisiert, die in ihrer 3 "You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to Interpret that you are so", sagt Banquo zu ihnen; Shakespeare 1962, l, 3, 45. Zum Geschlechterbild der Hexen in Macbeth siehe Rackin... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 147 pages
...— WHAT ARE YOU? uve VOU? OR ARE VOU AUSHT THAT MAN MAY QUESTION? YOU SEEM TO UNOERSTAND ME, ВУ EACH AT ONCE HER CHOPPY FINGER LAYING UPON HER SKINNY LIPS: — YOU SHOULD BE WOMEN, AND УБТ k YOUR BEARDS FORBID ME TO INTERPRET THAT YOU SOOD SIR, WHY DOYOUS7X/77/AND SEEM TO FEAR THINGS]... | |
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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. 
