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Critical Article on MacBeth
William Empson disagreed with many of J. M. Robertson, Literary
Detection (1931), about certain points surrounding MacBeth. "The eye wink
at the hand, yet let that be which the eye fear, when tis done, to see." is
a line from MacBeth which to Robertson "appeared particularly vulgar".
Willi ....
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lines, "hold rumour could be like 'hold parley with'" and goes through a
retranslation of this short passage. "No one who had experienced civil war
could say it had no sense." is a line which briefly sums up Robertson's
reasons for his earlier claim on this passage, his lack of experiencing a
civil war. Empson does a wonderful job placing himself as the first
audience of Shakespeare and reliving these events to their raw meaning. I
believe that once you've lived through a civil war with its traitors and
violent times, this passage comes through ....
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