 | Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 σελίδες
...servant, Macbeth stands alone, readying himself for the bloody deed he shortly must perform. Macbeth: Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. (The servant exits. Though Macbeth has killed before, the awful task ahead is not... | |
 | John O'Connor - 2001 - 264 σελίδες
...night of the planned murder, and Macbeth prepares himself to do the deed. ACT 2 Scene i MACBETH Go hid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, She strike upon the bell. Get thee to hed. Exit Servant. Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 320 σελίδες
...king's visit. But perhaps the most marked contrast of this type comes in Macbeth 's next soliloquy: Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. Exit Servant. Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle to ward my hand?... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 σελίδες
...the same means (n. ii. i). There is the grim irony of the bell which 'invites' Macbeth to the murder: Go, bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready She strike upon the bell. (ii. i. 31) horror beneath. 'Drink' is often suggested. There is the porter whose drunken festivities... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Dinah Jurksaitis - 2003 - 156 σελίδες
...that he should kill Duncan. He went towards Duncan's room with his own dagger in his hand. MACBETH Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. [Exit SERVANT Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come,... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - 2004 - 198 σελίδες
...controlling but ominous, deadly, in Macbeth. It is the sign of the conspiracy of husband and wife: "Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, She strike upon the bell" (2.1.31-32). But when the bell does ring (2.1.61 sd), summoning like the sacring bell with which it... | |
 | Robert Ornstein - 2004 - 318 σελίδες
...be counseled. Macbeth Good repose the while. Banq. Thanks sir: the like to you. Exit Banquo. Macbeth Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. Exit. Scene 2 Enter King, Lady, and Attendants. King. See, see, our honored hostess:... | |
 | Colin Butler - 2005 - 217 σελίδες
...by challenging his manhood; and, immediately before his soliloquy, Macbeth has ordered his servant, "Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, / She strike upon the bell." Shakespeare wants Macbeth completely alone onstage. During his soliloquy, Macbeth comes face to face with the moral... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 σελίδες
...the while! BANQUO Thanks, sir: the like to you! 30 [Banquet and Fleancego to their chamber MACBETH Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. [the servant goes; he sits at the table Is this a dagger which I see before me, The... | |
 | Martin Lings - 2006 - 228 σελίδες
...Macbeth's words to his servant just before the dagger soliloquy that immediately precedes the murder: Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. (II, 1,3 1-32) He knows that his wife will understand what he means, namely that the... | |
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Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation,... 
