 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 268 pages
...stage. Then enter MACBETH If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If th' assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and...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'... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - Drama - 1994 - 182 pages
...devils him, bends back belief to disbelief. Macbeth begins by juggling with theological reflection. ... If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence,...here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come. (1.7.2-7) In this context scholars believe "jump" means "risk," but to... | |
 | Don Taylor - Performing Arts - 1996 - 212 pages
...Macbeth: If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If th'assasination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his...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'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1997 - 308 pages
...eternity: If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If th'assassination Could trammel up the consequence and catch With his...bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. (t.7.t-7) For a moment, these hypothetical thoughts dissuade him: But in these cases, We still have... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...(1668). 5 If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If th'assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his...bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Macbeth, in Macbeth, artl.sc. 7, 1. 1-7(1623).... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...state, is a necessary evil"— Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 10 Jan. 1776. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly; if the assassination...bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. -Macbeth, i, 7 segh: seize, hold; have, pause. Several variants developed in Greek, skhedios: holding... | |
 | Lindsay Price - 2001 - 40 pages
...enter and exit bearing trays to and from the banquet hall. MACBETH: If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination...here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody... | |
 | Simon Duckett - Victims of crimes - 2003 - 506 pages
...in the section about the CICA on page 278 that outlines the process. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly. If the assassination...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 the... | |
 | Paul R. Dunn - Political Science - 2004 - 308 pages
...Commentary 70 Shakespeare captured the essence of assassination in MacBeth. "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly; if the assassination...bank and shoal of time, we'd jump the life to come." The odious practice of removing an opponent by knife rather than vote was a popular theme for the seemingly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 260 pages
...rapidly leaps into his own: If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If th' assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and...bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. [I.7.I-7] "Jump" partly means "risk," but Shakespeare carries it over into our meaning also. After... | |
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tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : if the assassination Could trammel up the 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, —... 
