 | Alan England - Drama - 1981 - 268 pages
...presenting it. Macbeth's first speech on re-entry faces the actor with a crucial choice of interpretation: Had I but died an hour before this chance I had lived...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Is the character genuinely appalled by what he has done or is he putting on an act? Should he try to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2014 - 236 pages
...Macbeth Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant 100 There's nothing serious in mortality All is but toys:...this vault to brag of. [Enter Malcolm and Donalbain] Donalbain What is amiss? l°5 Macbeth You are, and do not know't: The spring, the head, the fountain... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - Drama - 1990 - 260 pages
...again release the flow of subliminal images: Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time: for from this instant, There's nothing...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (91-96) Macbeth has placed the poisoned chalice to his own lips, "taken" upon himself the "present... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine. Making the green one red. (II, ii) POETRY QUOTATIONS 400 109 ning some fear. How easy is a bush supposed a bear!...the wasted brands do glow. Whilst the screech-owl, (II, iii) 1 10 What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros,... | |
 | John S. Tanner - Anxiety in literature - 1992 - 226 pages
...seriousness, Kierkegaard cites the following lines by Macbeth, uttered just after Duncan's murder: From this instant There's nothing serious in mortality:...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (CA, 146; cf. Macbeth 2.3.92-96) Kierkegaard sees Macbeth as the tragedy of a man who slays his own... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 132 pages
...chance, I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: 90 All is but toys; renown and grace is dead; The wine...this vault to brag of. Enter MALCOLM and DONALBAIN. DONALB. What is amiss? MACBETH You are, and do not know't: The spring, the head, the fountain of your... | |
 | Heinrich F. Plett - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 414 pages
...Hofstaat zu einer heuchlerischen Klagerede ansetzt: Had I but died an hour before this chance I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (II.iii.91-96)55 In dieser lamentalio des Mörders über den Tod seines Opfers handelt es sich ohne... | |
 | Valerie Wayne, Cornelia Niekus Moore - Social Science - 1993 - 122 pages
...those qualities which make life happy and worthwhile. He bemoans his predicament: From this insunt There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys....drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (II, iii. 94-98) Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (1957) is a loose adaptation of Macbeth. However, it is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 268 pages
...MACBETH Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant, 90 There's nothing serious in mortality; All is but toys....this vault to brag of. Enter MALCOLM and DONALBAIN DONALBAIN What is amiss? MACBETH You are, and do not know't. The spring, the head, the fountain of... | |
 | Robert L. Perkins - Philosophy - 2000 - 320 pages
...cry of anguish on having murdered the king. Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (Macbeth II.3.96-101) This passage is quoted by Vigilius Haufniensis (CA, 146). strength. I for my... | |
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Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys: renown and grace is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. 
