 | Gilbert Harman - Philosophy - 1999 - 302 pages
...Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? ... I see thee still; And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing; It...the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes. (Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, scene i) Let us use 'see*' ('see-star') for the sense of 'see' in which... | |
 | Martin Harries - Philosophy - 2000 - 209 pages
...by the state. Macbeth, on the other hand, marks the death of Nature as he prepares to kill Duncan: Now o'er the one half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecat's off rings . . . (II.1.49-52) Witchcraft, for Macbeth,... | |
 | Harry Levin - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 157 pages
...candles, but by the recurring imagery of nightfall, overcast and dreamlike as in the dagger speech: Now o'er the one half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep. (II, i, 49-51) Characters, habitually undressing or dressing, seem to be either going... | |
 | John O'Connor - Drama - 2001 - 245 pages
...other senses, Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still; And on thy Made and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing. It...which informs Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one half-world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse 20 The curtained sleep; witchcraft celebrates... | |
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