 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.  Blackwood's Magazine - Sida 6241849Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Ilse E. Friesen - 2001 - 208 sidor
...the witches are addressed by Banquo, a nobleman in the company of Macbeth, with the following words: "You should be women,/ And yet your beards forbid me to interpret/ That you are so."43 Certain observers, in turn, have regarded the bearded St. Wilgefortis as an ugly monster and... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 316 sidor
...Banquo to speak the same universal language that offered travellers access to the world of the Other: 'You seem to understand me, / By each at once her choppy finger laying / Upon her skinny lips' (1.3.43-5). This might be the gestus which Bulwer calls Inventione laboro, indicating that they are... | |
 | Michael Neill - 2000 - 556 sidor
...Banquo to speak the same universal language that offered travelers access to the world of the Other: "You seem to understand me, / By each at once her choppy finger laying / Upon her skinny lips" (1.3.43-5). This might be the gestus Bulwer calls Inventione laboro, indicating that they are momentarily... | |
 | Meiling Cheng - 2002 - 454 sidor
...these, So withered and so wild in their attire That look not like th'inhabitants of th'earth . . . You should be women. And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. Hailed as he "that shalt be King hereafter," Macbeth is now surrounded by the "weird sisters," who... | |
 | Robert Poole - 2002 - 244 sidor
...quandary, and the latter sets the scene for the epistemological 'queasiness' of the plot when he admits, 'You should be women, / And yet your beards forbid me to interpret / That you are so' (I, iii, 38-44). For Greenblatt, 'What is happening here is that Shakespeare is staging the ontological... | |
 | Frederick Kiefer - 2003 - 378 sidor
...sisters of Macbeth are nothing like the devotees of Titania in Dream is clear from Banquo's address. 62 You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy...your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. (1.3.43-47) The word "choppy," which means "full of clefts," indicates rough skin. Together with the... | |
 | Marion Gibson - 2003 - 288 sidor
...you, or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy76 finger laying Upon her skinny lips; you should be...you are so. Macbeth: Speak if you can: what are you? First Witch: All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.77 72. The Folio spelling means that this... | |
 | Jonathan Goldberg - 2003 - 398 sidor
...of Macbeth, Lady Macbeths reading of Macbeth's letrer, or Banquo's confrontation with the witches: You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy...should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to inrerpret That you are so. (1-3-43-47) Their beards and fingers on their lips forbid inrerpretation... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Dinah Jurksaitis - 2003 - 156 sidor
...attire, 40 That 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,...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... | |
 | J. Philip Newell - 2003 - 148 sidor
...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 the speaking... | |
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