 | Clive Barker, Simon Trussler - Drama - 1998 - 100 pages
...Shakespeare's play, who swears that she would kill her baby if she had committed herself to doing so: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd...brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. (I, vii, 56-9) Perhaps, we are led to think, it is the experience of a miscarriage which has led her... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - Fiction - 1999 - 406 pages
...but Lady Macbeth changes his mind. In one of the most blood-curdling images in the play, she says: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done this. She then recounts the murder plan. When Duncan is asleep, she will get his attendants drunk.... | |
 | Jessica Munns, Penny Richards - Design - 1999 - 380 pages
...her "Remarks," Siddons quotes Lady Macbeth's dramatic comments and offers a revealing interpretation: 'I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from its boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out,- — had I but so sworn As you have done to this.' Even... | |
 | Clare Constant, Susan Duberley - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 102 pages
...Did then adhere, and yet you would make both. They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. [" I have given suck, and know How...me I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done... | |
 | Ronald Hayman - Education - 1999 - 116 pages
...act. Questions like "How many children had Lady Macbeth?" never bother us in the theater. She says: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...me— I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done... | |
 | Susannah York, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 124 pages
...Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender...brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. - If we should fail, we fail! But screw your courage to the sticking place And we'll not fail. Macbeth,... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2001 - 352 pages
...it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. ... I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done... | |
 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...Welles on Shakespeare LADY MACBETH What beast was't then, That made you break this enterprise to me? I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...me: I would, while it was smiling in my face. Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains outs, had I so sworn as you Have done... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 208 pages
...she invokes the spirits of murder to suck her breasts, and that in which she finally goads Macbeth : I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. (i, vii, 54-9) Lady Macbeth is siren as well as fury. The tenderness of Macbeth for her is reciprocated;... | |
 | Mary Ann McGrail - Drama - 2002 - 200 pages
...of that "Nature" which impedes her ruthlessness. Lady Macbeth concludes with the boastful challenge I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. (54-58) I say that this challenge is boastful because Lady Macbeth is not able to sustain it— she... | |
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I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. 
