 | Peter Holland - Drama - 2004 - 380 pages
...agency. Upon conceiving his first nefarious act, murdering the Prince of Cumberland, Macbeth intones 'Let not light see my black and deep desires; / The...be / Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see' (1.4.53-5). The 'winking' eye both sees and does not see, perceives what is seen and unseen, seen in... | |
 | George Ian Duthie - Art - 2005 - 216 pages
...commit the murder: The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let...be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (I, iv, 48-53) Professor Dover Wilson's theory of a cut scene fits in well with this motif of Macbeth... | |
 | Niels Bugge Hansen, Søs Haugaard - Drama - 2005 - 170 pages
...Macbeth now self-consciously enters the realm of darkness, making there a space for himself alone: Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black...that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (1.4. 50-53) The stars will indeed not be shining on the night of the killing. By contrast, King Duncan,... | |
 | Harriett Hawkins - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 308 pages
...obscure her eyesight with smoke and then displaces her eyesight onto the knife. Similarly with Macbeth: "Stars, hide your fires, / Let not light see my black...be / Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see"; "I am afraid to think what I have done; / Look on't again I dare not" (1.4.50-53,2.2.49-50). Both sorts... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...step On which I must fall down, or else o'er-leap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires! 50 Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye...that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. [he goes DUNCAN True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant, And in his commendations I am fed; It is... | |
 | Martin Lings - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 228 pages
...whole is: The Prince of Cumberland! — That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires! Let...be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (1, 4, 48-53) "The eye" is here the light of the conscience; Macbeth's willful suppression of that... | |
 | Sam Dowling - Fiction - 2007 - 90 pages
...worthy Cawdor MACBETH The Prince of Cumberland that is a step On which I must fall down or else o'erleap For in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires Let not...that be Which the eye fears when it is done to see [ FLOURISH. EXEUNT. LADY MACBETH with a letter.] LADY MACB This is great news Macbeth Glamis thou art... | |
 | Kerstin Nowak - 2007 - 40 pages
...lässt, abzusehen: The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step On which I must fall down, or eise o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires, Let...that be, Which the eye fears when it is done to see. (I.iv. 48 - 53) Da der Prinz ja rechtmäßiger Nachfolger des Königs ist, wäre ein Mord nutzlos.... | |
 | Peter Holland - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 370 pages
...overcome this aporetic disjunction by replacing it -with his own deliberate dissociation of hand and eye: Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black...that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (1.4.50-3) The Oxford editor, Nicholas Brooke, glosses line 54 'let the eye not see what the hand is... | |
 | Oliver Kast - 2007 - 105 pages
...Handlung entspringt, darstellt) in seinem Geiste wird in I. iv. 50-53 verdeutlicht, wo Macbeth sagt: "Stars, hide your fires!/ Let not light see my black...be,/ Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see." Da er seinen schwarzen, unheilvollen Begehren nicht entkommen kann, wünscht er, daß seine Hände... | |
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The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is... 
