...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 of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it nukes, Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold! Hold! (i, v, 5 i-5) Apart from...

...approach to death. The intercutting of the two actions begins at the end of Lady Macbeth's conjuration: Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...through the blanket of the dark To cry, "Hold, hold!" (Iv50-55) On these words she faces away and the screen fills with swirling clouds and fog, "the dunnest...

...'Hold! Hold!' (Widand, p. 71). The phrase will be familiar to Shakespearians as Lady Macbeth's: . . . Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...through the blanket of the dark To cry 'Hold, hold!' (1.5.49-53) In her half-waking state, Clara hears Carwin's call as a divine voice and imagines that...

...care and tenderness and every other thing that becomes a woman. Let nothing shake my foul purpose. Let my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor heaven...through the blanket of the dark to cry, 'Hold, hold!'" Qhapt er Duncan and his sons, Malcolm and Donalbain, rode with Banquo and his son Fleance. All were...

...There may be an added irony in that Shakespeare's Douglas has a claim on the English crown. 5.1.182-4 Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke...hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes — (Macbeth, Iv50-2) Here, Glenalvon's Macbeth-like oath reinforces his role as potential usurper....

...the play's political implications in The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare, pp. 254-9. Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The...through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!' Woman is the normal symbol of life and nourishment : the dramatist by this reversal can emphasize the...

...remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th" effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts And take...through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!' (1^.37-50) Shakespeare's personal views on demoniacal possession are not certainly known. His reading...

...peace between Th'effect and it. Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You...through the blanket of the dark To cry "Hold, hold!" (1.5.38-52) Macbeth, distinguished by its hero's psychotic megalomania and perverted regicide, closes...

...and it. Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, Where -ever, in your sightless substances, You wait on Nature's...through the blanket of the dark, To cry, 'Hold, hold.' (lines 37-51) From the fostering, quiet, slow pace of 'Come you spirits', Multiplying villainies of...

...peace between Th'effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You...night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, 50 That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,...