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" We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor ; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own... "
Macbeth. King John - Page 27
by William Shakespeare - 1788
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Directing Plays

Don Taylor - Performing Arts - 1996 - 212 pages
...consequence, and catch With his surcease, success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here But here upon this bank and shoal of time We'd jump...the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgement here, that we but teach Bloody instructions, which being taught return To plague th' inventor....
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Repräsentation von Zeit bei Shakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV, Macbeth

Jutta Schamp - Time in literature - 1997 - 382 pages
...bezieht sich vielmehr auf die Gewissensqualen, mit denen man im irdischen Sein fertig werden muß: ' ' ' But in these cases, We still have judgment here; that...instructions, which, being taught, return To plague th'inventor: this even-handed Justice Commends th'ingredience of our poison'd chalice M. Deutschbein,...
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Macbeth: A Kid's Cautionary Tale Concerning Greed, Power, Mayhem and Other ...

Drama - 1999 - 62 pages
...watches him from a distance.) KAYTLIN. OK. He's decided to do it, but he's still worried. MACBETH. In these cases We still have judgment here, that we...which, being taught, return to plague the inventor. MARIE. What he's saying is: violence leads to more violence. Ever hit a kid who didn't hit you back?...
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Macbeth : a Play in One Act

Lindsay Price - 2001 - 40 pages
...this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases We still...even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips. He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,...
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Guilty Creatures : Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship ...

Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 282 pages
...blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and [shoal] of time, We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases We still...instructions, which, being taught, return To plague th'inventor. (Macbeth, 1.7.2-10) Even to imply that the author of a witchcraft play could consider...
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Lectures on Shakespeare

Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases We still...instructions, which, being taught, return To plague th' inventor. This even-handed justice Commends th' ingredience of our poison 'd chalice To our own...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 18

Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 232 pages
...extent'. He illustrates this from the lines in Macbeth (i, vii) : But here, upon this bank and school of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these...judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions. He then comments on the imagery of the passage : Bank is used for bench, and time, for mortal life;...
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Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life

William Howard Adams - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 361 pages
...will be destroyed.'" Morris then quotes the chilling lines Macbeth spoke to predict his own death: "But in these cases we still have judgment here; that...even-handed justice commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice to our own lips." Morris reflects that it is hard to know who will "drink out of the...
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The Theology of Paul's Letter to the Romans

Klaus Haacker - Religion - 2003 - 206 pages
...surcease, success; that but this blow Might he the be-all and the end-all here But here upon this hank and shoal of time We'd jump the life to come. But...instructions, which being taught return To plague th'inventor. This even-handed justice Commends th'ingredience of our poison'd chalice To our own lips....
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The Shattered Gourd: Yoruba Forms in Twentieth Century American Art

Okediji - Art - 2012 - 216 pages
...thus far, to all attempts at remedy. TillBirnam Wood Remove to Dunsinane recalls Macbeth's soliloquy that "we but teach / Bloody instructions, which being...evenhanded justice / Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice / To our own lips."28 What began as a media spectacle is now a matter that the American...
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