 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 132 pages
...opposed, being of no woman born, Yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, And damned be him that first cries 'Hold, enough'! [Exeunt f1ghting. Alarum. Enter fighting. Macbeth is slain. Exit Macduff with Macbeth' s body. SCENE 9. Within... | |
 | Alan Warren Friedman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 360 pages
...the end refuses Macduff's demand that he surrender (5.8.28). Instead, he seeks an appropriate death: "Lay on, Macduff, / And damned be him that first cries 'Hold, enough!'" (5.8.33-4); so that, finally, we may say of Macbeth what was said of his equally traitorous predecessor... | |
 | Arthur Graham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...thou opposed, be of no woman born, Yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff; And damned be him that first cries "Hold, enough!" They exit fighting and reenter fighting. Macbeth is killed. Macduff exits with the body of Macbeth.... | |
 | Mike Royston - Education - 1998 - 246 pages
...a man without identity whose only surviving instinct is to blindly destroy the identity of others: 'Lay on, Macduff, And damned be him that first cries "Hold, enough". But Macbeth has been 'damned' from the moment he committed himself to the wholesale destruction of... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - Fiction - 1999 - 406 pages
...arrived, Macbeth vows to fight to the end. Placing his shield before him, Macbeth challenges Macduff, "...lay on, Macduff; / And damned be him that first cries. 'Hold, enough!'" Malcolm, Old Siward, Ross, and their army enter Macbeth's castle victoriously. Macduff enters carrying... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...brave exit lines; Richard's 'A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!' (5.4.7, 13) parallels Macbeth's 'Lay on, Macduff, / And damned be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!"' (5.8.33-4). The list of correspondences large and small between the two plays might be lengthened,... | |
 | Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...opposed being of no woman born, Yet I will try the last. Before my body, I throw my warlike shield. Lay on MacdufF, And damned be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!" — a final utterance that might have served Leónidas at Thermopylae before his head was cut off by... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Dinah Jurksaitis - Drama - 2003 - 156 pages
...opposed, being of no woman born, Yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield: lay on, Macduff, And damned be him that first cries 'Hold, enough!' Alarums. Re-enter fighting, and MACBETH is slain Retreat and flourish. Enter, with drums and colours,... | |
 | William Safire - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 382 pages
...minutely examined. Can you imagine Macbeth's final words in the play spoken in the American idiom? "Lay on Macduff; and damned be him that first cries, Hold, enough already!" EYE ROLLER PaulS.McCaig Dana Point, California "The numbers came in high," a senior administration... | |
 | Peter Holland - Drama - 2004 - 380 pages
...know that he is doomed. Nevertheless, he will not yield: 'Before my body / I throw my warlike shield: lay on Macduff, / And damned be him that first cries "Hold enough!" (5.7.62-4). Our last impression of Macbeth is of a warrior, blindly courageous in the face of an unassailable... | |
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And thou opposed, being of no woman born, Yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, And damned be him that first cries "Hold enough! 
