...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...

...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)....

...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",...

...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...

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...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...