 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...you? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her chappy finger laying Upon her skinny lips : — You should...your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. Macb. Speak, if you can. — What are you ? 1 Witch. All hail, Macbeth ! hail to thee, thane of Glamis... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1997 - 308 pages
...concerning women whose 'naturall course' has been 'suppressed' anticipates Banquo's view of the sisters: You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy...your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. (t.3.4t-5) According to one popular play, 'the women that / came to us, for disguises must weare beardes,... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 pages
...of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth's reading of Macbeth's letter, or Banquo's confrontation with the witches: You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy...your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. (I. iii. 43-7) Their beards and fingers on their lips forbid interpretation and point beyond an order... | |
 | Psychology - 420 pages
...completely possessed by the weird sisters, to become, as they, neither man nor woman but both man and woman? "You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so," Banquo says when he meets the witches on the heath (act i, se. 3). The witch's imago is ambiguous and... | |
 | John Green, Paul Negri - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2000 - 68 pages
...Forres? What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't? Live you? or are you aught...should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to internet That you are so. MACBETH. Speak, if you can: what are you? FIRST WITCH. All hail, Macbeth!... | |
 | Peter Elmer - History - 2000 - 454 pages
...wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th'inhabitants o' th'earth, And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught That man may question?...your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. (1.3.39-47) These witches are related to ordinary women - 'You should be women' - yet every detail... | |
 | John Sallis - Philosophy - 2000 - 262 pages
...pointedly in the visages of the witches, concentrates it to the point of eroding their sexual identity: You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. (I.iii.45-47) After the witches vanish, Banquo and Macbeth continue their flagrant coupling of oppositions;... | |
 | John O'Connor - College and school drama, English - 2001 - 112 pages
...withered, and so wild in their attire, That look not like th'inhabitants o'th'earth, And yet are on't? Live you? Or are you aught That man may question?...your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. BURBAGE/MACB. Speak, if you can: what are you? PHILLIPS/1ST w. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane... | |
 | Allan Peterkin - Health & Fitness - 2001 - 236 pages
...discovered.) In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Banquo comes across the Bubble-Toil-Trouble set of witches and utters, "You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so." Royal patronage was occasionally proffered to a bearded woman — the furry Helena Antonia was beloved... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - Mirror symmetry - 2001 - 940 pages
...more revealing way: through her disordered sexuality. Much as Banquo observes to the wither'd hags, "you should be women, / And yet your beards forbid me to interpret / That you are so" (1.3.45-7), likewise Lady Macbeth does not seem purely female. One can begin with her fervent praying... | |
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Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. 
