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" Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both : They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 20
by William Shakespeare - 1803
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The Clothes that Wear Us: Essays on Dressing and Transgressing in Eighteenth ...

Jessica Munns, Penny Richards - Design - 1999 - 380 pages
...her "Remarks," Siddons quotes Lady Macbeth's dramatic comments and offers a revealing interpretation: 'I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from its boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out,- — had I but so sworn As you have done to this.' Even...
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How to Read a Play

Ronald Hayman - Education - 1999 - 116 pages
...act. Questions like "How many children had Lady Macbeth?" never bother us in the theater. She says: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...me— I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done...
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Macbeth

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 148 pages
...would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place 52 Did then adhere, and yet you would make both. 53 They have made themselves, and that their fitness...me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you 59 Have done...
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The Loves of Shakespeare's Women

Susannah York, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 124 pages
...coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would' Like the poor cat i' th' adage? When you durst do it, then you were a man And to be...brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. - If we should fail, we fail! But screw your courage to the sticking place And we'll not fail. Macbeth,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2001 - 352 pages
...it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. ... I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done...
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Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts

Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...Welles on Shakespeare LADY MACBETH What beast was't then, That made you break this enterprise to me? I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...me: I would, while it was smiling in my face. Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains outs, had I so sworn as you Have done...
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Who's who in Shakespeare

Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...speeches that Shakespeare puts into her mouth, during her earlier marriage she had borne a son : ... I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Macbeth, Lady Malcolm Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 4

Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 208 pages
...she invokes the spirits of murder to suck her breasts, and that in which she finally goads Macbeth : I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. (i, vii, 54-9) Lady Macbeth is siren as well as fury. The tenderness of Macbeth for her is reciprocated;...
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The Imperial Theme

George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...contrast our two visions neatly with reference to the life-image of babyhood. Lady Macbeth speaks: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. (Macbeth, i. vii. 54) Compare : Peace, peace ! Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the...
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Tyranny in Shakespeare

Mary Ann McGrail - Drama - 2002 - 200 pages
...of that "Nature" which impedes her ruthlessness. Lady Macbeth concludes with the boastful challenge I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. (54-58) I say that this challenge is boastful because Lady Macbeth is not able to sustain it— she...
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