 | Kent T. Van den Berg - 1985 - 204 pages
...is equally scornful of Macbeth's instinctive honesty, his tendency to wear his heart on his sleeve: Your face, my Thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. look like th'innocent flower, But be the serpent under 't. (Iv60-61,63-64) Macbeth differs from Lady... | |
 | Neil McNaughton - 1989 - 252 pages
...required to determine what is the case in any specific instance. 4: Expression: a window on the emotions? 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... | |
 | Mark Turner - 1994 - 316 pages
...unweeded garden / That grows to seed," Drydcn's "Love's a malady without a cure," and Shakespeare's "Your face, my thane, is as a book where men / May read strange matters." The lines between an aspect, an instance, and a kind are not sharp. Consider, for example, the phrase... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne, Pat Browne - 1991 - 196 pages
...this unanimity, the face may misrepresent the self, and the body disguise the soul. The Face as Mask 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... | |
 | John Leeds Barroll, Susan P. Cerasano - 1996 - 300 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 uses of character... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1997 - 76 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 tongue; look like... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 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 individual actor... | |
 | Barbara Landau - 2000 - 386 pages
...alteration in perfecting deception is Macbeth. Early in the play Lady Macbeth begins coaching her husband: 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 778 pages
...STEEVENS: So in Pericles, 'Her face the book of praises, where is read,' &c., [I, i, 15]. Again in Macbeth, 'Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters,' [I, v, 63]. For I haue euer verified my Friends, 21 21-26. For... Leafing.] Om. Bell. Cartwright. amplified... | |
 | Thomas Leech - 2001 - 328 pages
...Royko said, "It's Dole's misfortune that when he does smile, he looks as if he's just evicted a widow." 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... | |
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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. 
