 | Verena Schörkhuber - 2007 - 37 pages
...with the witches, she phrases this unsexing as the undoing of her own bodily maternal function: 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 th'access and passage to remorse; That no... | |
 | Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 238 pages
...his fiend-like queen' (5.11.35), and in Act 1, scene 5, she asks to be unsexed by murder demons: 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. (1.5.38-41) We do not have to maintain, with Walter Clyde Curry, that 'without... | |
 | Yvonne Nilges - Opera - 2007 - 198 pages
...der zu ihrer Dehumanisierung (und Defeminisierung) die Unterwelt anrufenden Lady Macbeth: „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 [!]." (Macbeth, I, 5, Vs. 38-41) 15 Auf die Parallele verweist bereits Isolde... | |
 | Joan Fitzpatrick - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 188 pages
...prophecies, Lady Macbeth echoes their demonic incantations in her invocation to the powers of darkness: 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 th' access and passage to remorse, That no... | |
 | 339 pages
...Macbeth: 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 the access and passage to remorse, That no... | |
 | Oliver Kast - 2007 - 105 pages
...jene des Himmels. Sie selber führen den Zerfall der Person und damit auch den ihres Zusammen"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 th'access and passage to remorse; [...]"!.... | |
 | Robert A. Logan - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 276 pages
...of the manliness to which Macbeth aspires in his role as murderer and unregenerate criminal: Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe topfull Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood; Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no... | |
 | Kerstin Nowak - 2007 - 40 pages
...Rücksichtslosigkeit zu erlangen, verlangt sie im ersten Akt von „spirits that tend on mortal thoughts"22: „unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty"23. Sie verleugnet ihre Weiblichkeit zugunsten ihres Ehrgeizes, oder vielmehr,... | |
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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... 
