...and untwisting its own strength Perhaps the true reading in Macbeth* is — blank height of the * " Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark !" Act i. sc. 5 But, after all, may not the ultimate allusion be to so humble an image aa that of an...

...need Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth's determination to kill Duncan . . . Come, thick Night, And pall thcc in the dunnest smoke of Hell, That my keen knife see...through the blanket of the dark, To cry, 'Hold, hold!' Act i Scv his wife's support. It is as if her strength of character has been taken over by him - and...

...my black and deep desires The eye wink at the hand Come, thick night And pal I thee in the dünnest smoke of hell That my keen knife see not the wound...through the blanket of the dark To cry 'Hold, hold'. Alternatively, you could create star images which can be used at other points in the play, perhaps...

...between / Th' effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts / And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, / Wherever in your sightless substances...through the blanket of the dark / To cry 'Hold, hold!' " (act 1, sc. 6, lines 38-52i. 1n. Lady Macheth, or Gruoch (b. 1ot5?), was the daughter of Boite (Bodheor...

...again when Lady Macbeth dwells upon the same event in her apostrophe to the 'murth'ring ministers': Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...through the blanket of the dark, To cry, 'Hold, hold!' 'Hell', 'pall', 'knife', 'dark' — 'The peculiar and appropriate dress for Tragedy is a pall and a...

...the castle and also in daylight, Lady Macbeth has called upon the dark raven as well as the night: Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...through the blanket of the dark To cry "Hold, hold!" (Iv51-55) It should be dark in the murder scene, with the lights of people wrongfully moving about,...

...would one read? Did vengeance tempt her? Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Ml, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor...through the blanket of the dark to cry, "Hold, hold!" She forbore to dagger the cad, though some would have spared him not. Rather, Patti LuPone wrecked...

...speech (which he errs in attributing to Macbeth), is a passage most apposite to the present inquiry: Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold ! Hold ! (i, v, 51-5) Apart from the subtle...

...equal part in Duncan's murder, blocking all natural scruples, turning her life-giving milk bitter, 'That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, /Nor...through the blanket of the dark, /To cry, "Hold, hold!" ' (1.5.40-54). Lady Macbeth also perverts the meaning of manhood as a way of taunting her husband with...

...the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (1.4.50-53); Lady Macbeth. Come, thick night. And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes. (1.5.50-52) Ironically, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth do end up in effect acting with their eyes closed...