The Tragedy of MacbethClassic Books Company, 2001 - 500 páginas "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: |
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... English style uncouth without sim- ' plicity , obscure without conciseness , and slovenly without ease , must ' give his nights and days to the Notes of Capell . ' And as if all this were not enough , these Notes are printed in so odd a ...
... English style uncouth without sim- ' plicity , obscure without conciseness , and slovenly without ease , must ' give his nights and days to the Notes of Capell . ' And as if all this were not enough , these Notes are printed in so odd a ...
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... English , I am Master of a Puppet - show ; and as from the nature of my employment , I am obliged to have a few stock - plays ready for ' representation , whenever I am accidentally visited by a select party ' of Ladies and Gentlemen ...
... English , I am Master of a Puppet - show ; and as from the nature of my employment , I am obliged to have a few stock - plays ready for ' representation , whenever I am accidentally visited by a select party ' of Ladies and Gentlemen ...
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... English Commentators follow , which could not well be put under any of these headings . In my selection ( and I was forced to make a selection , or ' the line would stretch out to the crack ' of doom ' ) I was guided by the wish to ...
... English Commentators follow , which could not well be put under any of these headings . In my selection ( and I was forced to make a selection , or ' the line would stretch out to the crack ' of doom ' ) I was guided by the wish to ...
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... English Tongues An Antidote against Melancholy ( COLLIER'S Reprint ) LANGBAINE : English Dramatic Poets THEOBALD : Shakespeare Restored PECK : Memoirs of Milton • • JOHNSON : Miscellaneous Observations on Macbeth ( Works ed . 1825 ) ...
... English Tongues An Antidote against Melancholy ( COLLIER'S Reprint ) LANGBAINE : English Dramatic Poets THEOBALD : Shakespeare Restored PECK : Memoirs of Milton • • JOHNSON : Miscellaneous Observations on Macbeth ( Works ed . 1825 ) ...
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... English Pronunciation , & c . • • 1869 HENRY REED : English History and Poetry ( London ) . .. 1869 • 1869 1869 MORRIS : Glossary of the Words and Phrases of Furness xvi LIST OF BOOKS .
... English Pronunciation , & c . • • 1869 HENRY REED : English History and Poetry ( London ) . .. 1869 • 1869 1869 MORRIS : Glossary of the Words and Phrases of Furness xvi LIST OF BOOKS .
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Palavras e frases frequentes
ABBOTT ambition appears BAILEY ii Banquo blood called castle Cawdor character CLARENDON Coll COLLIER Compare conj Cotgrave crime crown dagger death deed DELIUS drama Duncan Dunsinane Dyce Edition ELWIN emendation English Enter Macbeth evil Exeunt Exit expression eyes F₂ fear Fleance Ghost give hand HARRY ROWE hath haue heart HEATH Hecate Holinshed honour Huds HUNTER husband Johns JOHNSON king Ktly Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff Lady Mb LETTSOM lord Macb Macd Macduff Mach Malcolm MALONE means mind murder nature night noble passage perfect spy perhaps play poet Pope present Ross scene Scotland seems sense Shakespeare Sing Siward sleep speak spirits STAUNTON Steev STEEVENS thane Thane of Cawdor thee Theob thou thought tion tragedy verb vnto WALKER Crit Warb weird sisters White wife Witch word
Passagens conhecidas
Página 89 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Página 154 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Página 76 - Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Página 40 - Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Página 176 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 71 - Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgement here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor. This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Página 55 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Página 49 - The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Página 101 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.