 | John Leeds Barroll, Susan P. Cerasano - History - 1996 - 288 pages
...our flesh" (V.ii. 114-15). There is no entry equivalent to the clich6 "written all over one's face" ("Your face, my thane, is as a book where men / May read strange matters," says Lady Macbeth, Macbeth I. v. 60-61). The bounds between the literal and metaphoric... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Juvenile Fiction - 1997 - 72 pages
...He wanted to talk about it later. 'host - a person who receives people in his own home LADY MACBETH: Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time Look like the time, bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 380 pages
...actors the most subtle of physical expression, but leaves open its precise mode: thus Lady Macbeth says: Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. (1.5.59-60) There may be as many such facial books as there are Macbeths, as each... | |
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Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters : — To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it. 
