...Duncan's room, she turned, stooping, and pointing her finger at Macbeth, said with ' malignant energy ' : If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt.2 (1r. ii. j 5-7) Sheridan Knowles remembered her calm self-possession when she...

...! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood 55 That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. [She exits. Knocking within] Macbeth Whence is that knocking? How is't with...

...grave man. There is the opportunity for Lady Macbeth to hit a bizarre and chilling note when she says: If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. It is quite possible that the adrenalin makes her slightly hysterical and she...

...2.2.55ff: 1 See 3.307 (Upton citing Theobald and Jonson); 4.560 (Heath). 2 See 1.239. Lady Macbeth. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt.] Could Shakespeare possibly mean to play upon the similitude of gild and guilt?...

...purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood 55 That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt. (Exit. Someone knocks at the gate.) MODULE 4 DRAMA Macbeth: Whence is that knocking?...

...to black humour involving homophonic puns, as these two examples confirm. First Lady Macbeth: (2.26) ...If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. (Macbeth Act II, ii.) Then after being mortally wounded we hear Mercutio tragically...

...to black humour involving homophonic puns, as these two examples confirm. First Lady Macbeth: (2.26) ...If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. (Macbeth Act II, ii.) Then after being mortally wounded we hear Mercutio tragically...

...this: Lady Macbeth, returning their daggers and announcing her plan to frame Duncan's guards, observes: If he do bleed I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt.9 denly find themselves punning: "Pardon the pun." Here, the amazement that characterizes...

...afraid to think what I have done. Look on't again I dare not. Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers ... If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. Exit. Knock within. Whence is that knocking? How ist with me, when every noise...

...in this context introdnces the pnn on gnilding: 'The sleeping and the dead f Arе bnt as pictnres: 'tis the eye of childhood ' That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed. ITl gnild the laces of the grooms withal. For it mnst seem their gnilt."i2o Gnilding. in other words...