 | Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 pages
...celebrates Pale Heccat's off'rings; and wither'd Murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howls his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's...ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate... | |
 | Janet Adelman - 1992 - 396 pages
...responsibility of choice. But the figure of murder then fuses with that of Tarquin: wither'd Murther, . . . thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. (2.1.52-56) These lines figure the murder as a display of male sexual aggression against a passive... | |
 | Bennett Simon - 1988 - 292 pages
...the murder as a rape. witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings; and withered murder, Alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch,...ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. (2.1.52-56)14 Murder is withered, a phrase evoking impotence and the desperation and sadism that may... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...abuse The curtained sleep. Witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings; and withered murder, Alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch,...ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate... | |
 | Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon Sprengnether - 1996 - 346 pages
...responsibility of choice. But the figure of murder then fuses with that of Tarquin: wither'd Murther, . . . thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. (2.1.52-56) These lines figure the murder as a display of male sexual aggression against a passive... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings, and withered murder, Alarumed by his sentinel the wolf, Whose howls his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's...ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. (2.1.49-56) In 1594 the theatres reopened, and Shakespeare became a member of the newly formed Lord... | |
 | Robert A. Erickson - 1997 - 304 pages
...witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings; and withered murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf . . . with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps. (Macbeth 2.1.49-57) Whereas Satan first entered Paradise... | |
 | Ralph Berry - 1999 - 244 pages
...2.1, is sexual. Macbeth, in his following soliloquy, formalizes the matter. He identifies himself with wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf...ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. (2.1.53-57) "Tarquin's ravishing strides:" the nature of the deed receives open confirmation. Now on... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 684 pages
...abuse The curtain'd sleep. Now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murther, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his...ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost." — Further similarities are discussed by AUGUST VORDIECK, Parallelismus zwischen Sh.s Macbeth und... | |
 | John O'Connor - 2001 - 264 pages
...20 The curtained sleep; witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings; and withered murder, Alarumed by his sentinel the wolf, Whose howl's his watch,...ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate... | |
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Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. 
