 | Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 532 pages
...who seems best to understand, and most to sympathize with, the old king should have the last word: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever...domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further! (3.2.22-26) CHAPTER 6 Text Against Performance: The Example of 'Macbeth' Rene Girard once observed... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...1943). 1 1 How do they know? Remark on hearing the announcement that Calvin Coolidge had died (1933). 12 After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason...domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Macbeth, in Macbeth, act3, sc. 2, 1. 25-8(1623).... | |
 | William Gerber - Epistemology & Metaphysics - 1997 - 252 pages
...these lines about the murdered Duncan: (779) After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason his done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. In Shakespeare's Cymbelinc, Prince Guiderius addresses the dead Princess Imogen in these words: (780)... | |
 | Robert Penn Warren - History - 1998 - 132 pages
...peculiar — not words about the ambitious and murderous Macbeth, but words about the good dead victim: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever...domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. What comes over to us in this strange moment is no easy applicability, schematically perfect, to the... | |
 | Gillian Murray Kendall - Drama - 1998 - 232 pages
...gash / Is added to her wounds" (3.3.40-41). Duncan, meanwhile, is beyond the reach of Macbeth's sword: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever...domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. (3. 2.. 22-26) There is, I think, a touch of envy in this speech. Macbeth's life is a "fitful fever",... | |
 | J. G. Randall, Richard N. Current, Richard Nelson Current - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 460 pages
...moved, and moving, with the verses in "Macbeth" in which Macbeth speaks of Duncan's assassination: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever...Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.9 With Lincoln, the play was the thing, not the acting, and in the play it was the thought... | |
 | Alan Sinfield, Deputy Editor: Lindsay Smith - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 164 pages
...used like this in Shakespeare, as when Macbeth tells his wife that Duncan is now free of worldly care: he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst; nor steel,...Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him futther. (IILii.25-8) Malice within Scorland is here domestic as opposed to 'foreign levy'. Gonetil... | |
 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...two Murderers appear in the corner under the tower. They crouch there, waiting, listening.) MACBETH Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever...foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. LADY MACBETH (meaningfully) Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives." SECOND MURDERER (in a hoarse... | |
 | Michael Gerhardt - Fiction - 2003 - 412 pages
...time. He nodded, thinking how appropriate the passage was, and launched into the lines with feeling. "Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever...domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further. " The Marquis seemed entranced by the passage, and Mathews thought it a fitting comment on the days... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Dinah Jurksaitis - Drama - 2003 - 156 pages
...gain our peace, have sent to peace, 20 Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever...nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing 25 Can touch him further. LADY MACBETH Come on; Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks, Be bright... | |
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Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. 
