 | Piotr Sadowski - 2003 - 336 pàgines
...after Duncan's death, but which expresses, intentionally or unintentionally, his profoundest feelings: Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (2.3.89-94) The murder of Banquo marks another step in Macbeth's development away from the early statism... | |
 | Robert Garis - 2004 - 204 pàgines
...Macbeth 's only audience, a speech that in Shakespeare has a quite different tone and function: MACBETH: Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (II. iii. 91-96) In Welles's entirely misplaced version, this becomes Macbeth's despair at the death... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 224 pàgines
...become a precise account of his real feelings: Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant There's nothing...drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. (II.iii.89-94) Notwithstanding this realisation, Macbeth begins to plan the murder of Banquo, half... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - 2006 - 186 pàgines
...by the newcomers Lennox and Rosse. But rather than displaying alarm, he shows a sudden resignation. Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da...drawn, and the mere lees, Is left this vault to brag of (2.3.81-96). He verbally stresses Doomsday, what may also be in the minds' eyes of Shakespeare's original... | |
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Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da 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... 
