 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 Seiten
...question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her chappy finger laying Upon her skinny lips : — hand ! Lear. L et me wipe it first ; it smells of mortality. Glo. O ruin'd piec Mach. Speak, if you can. — What are you ? 1 Witch. AH hail, Macbeth ! hail to thee, thane of Glamis... | |
 | 420 Seiten
...completely possessed by the weird sisters, to become, as they, neither man nor woman but both man and woman? "You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so," Banquo says when he meets the witches on the heath (act i, se. 3). The witch's imago is ambiguous and... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - 1999 - 356 Seiten
...witches: 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. (I. iii. 43-7) Their beards and fingers on their lips forbid interpretation and point beyond an order... | |
 | Peter Elmer - 2000 - 454 Seiten
...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. (1.3.39-47) These witches are related to ordinary women - 'You should be women' - yet every detail... | |
 | John Sallis - 2000 - 262 Seiten
...pointedly in the visages of the witches, concentrates it to the point of eroding their sexual identity: You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. (I.iii.45-47) After the witches vanish, Banquo and Macbeth continue their flagrant coupling of oppositions;... | |
 | John O'Connor - 2001 - 112 Seiten
...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. BURBAGE/MACB. Speak, if you can: what are you? PHILLIPS/1ST w. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane... | |
 | Orson Welles - 2001 - 342 Seiten
...like th' inhabitants o' th' earth And yet are on't? (Thunder up and down.) BANQUO (to the Witches) You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. (Pause. Thunder up and out.) MACBETH Speak, if you can. What are you? FIRST WITCH All hail. Macbeth!... | |
 | Allan Peterkin - 2001 - 236 Seiten
...discovered.) In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Banquo comes across the Bubble-Toil-Trouble set of witches and utters, "You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so." Royal patronage was occasionally proffered to a bearded woman — the furry Helena Antonia was beloved... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - 2001 - 940 Seiten
...more revealing way: through her disordered sexuality. Much as Banquo observes to the wither'd hags, "you should be women, / And yet your beards forbid me to interpret / That you are so" (1.3.45-7), likewise Lady Macbeth does not seem purely female. One can begin with her fervent praying... | |
 | Ilse E. Friesen - 2001 - 208 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
