 | Kristin Linklater - 1992 - 214 pages
...Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and Polonius in prose; then when he is alone he shifts into terrifying verse: 'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards...this world. Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. Soft, now to my mother. 0 heart, lose not thy nature.... | |
 | Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - 1992 - 289 pages
...occasion that may inform against her. Like Hamlet when he steels himself to do what can hardly be done — Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards...this world. Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. (3.2.379-83)— like Hamlet, Lady Macbeth centers... | |
 | Zvi Giora - 1992 - 254 pages
...mother's adultery than with his father's murder by Claudius, and his hatred grew to matricidal impulses: 0 heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever the soul...enter this firm bosom; Let me be cruel, not unnatural; 1 will speak daggers to her, but use none; (III. 376 - 379). The mentioning of Nero was very appropriate,... | |
 | Gene A. Smith, Robert E. Wood - 1994 - 171 pages
...traits of revenge tragedy and indicating the characteristics of the avenger's oath (III.ii.388-99). Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards...this world. Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. (IH.ii.388-91) To the extent that the speech is... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 268 pages
...come in his own time. He suddenly transforms the playhouse to a sinister and threatening midnight: 'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards...this world. Now could I drink hot blood And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. (395-399) But he has a duty to do: Soft, now to... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - 1995 - 197 pages
...resound with the savage and ghoulish tones that accompany the most frenzied imprecations of villains? Tis now the very witching time of night When churchyards...this world. Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. 1 1 1, ii, 379-83 Passion has overcome reason. But... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Russell Jackson - 1996 - 208 pages
...demonic HAMLET smells the midnight air and talks to Camera. His mood is chilling - unpleasant. HAMLET 'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards...this world Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. Soft, now to my mother. He says this with ominous... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - 1996 - 286 pages
...himself with hell, it would be immediately after the play scene. When he is finally alone, he says: 'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards...this world. Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. (3.2.408-412) Soon he will do bitter business indeed.... | |
 | Willy Apollon, Richard Feldstein - 1996 - 341 pages
...Claudius. And yet, summoned by his mother, he decides to work on her: "... Soft! now to my mother. — 0 heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever The soul...enter this firm bosom: Let me be cruel, not unnatural: 1 will speak daggers to her, but use none; My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites, — How in my... | |
 | Michael O'Donovan-Anderson - 1996 - 165 pages
...hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. Soft, now to my mother. 0 heart, lose not thy nature. Let not ever The soul...enter this firm bosom; Let me be cruel, not unnatural. 1 will speak daggers to her, but use none. (IH.ii. 381-87) There is here no hint of a sexual desire.... | |
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Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. 
