...inside-out is not a pretty sight. The image appears again when Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost: "the time has been, / That, when the brains were out, the man would...die, / And there an end; but now they rise again" (III.iv.77-9). Inversion is inextricable in this play from paradox and contradiction. The musical cadences...

...Stanislav Kossior, Antonov-Avseenko — I heard my mind saying to itself in these words from Macbeth, The times have been That, when the brains were out,...would die, And there an end; but now they rise again. . . . I took up Victor Serge and lived back, line by line, over the struggle I had known in 1937 and...

...Leiden erzählen, um das Schicksal abzuwenden, das ihm [...] zugetragen wird."136 Die "The time has been, that, when the brains were out, the man would die, and there an end; but now, they rise again, with twenty mortal murders on their crowns, and push us trom our stools. This is more strange than...

...Banquo. People are very hard to kill in Shakespeare. Well might Macbeth long for the good old days when the brains were out the man would die, And there an end; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. (3.4.79-82) Caesar, Hamlet's...

...her funeral dirge, she will rise before their scared visages, and make them cry out with Macbeth — 'The times have been That when the brains were out,...would die, And there an end: but now they rise again With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.' I am aware, sir, that many...

...Banquo, like Caesar, returns, and Macbeth discovers the limits of physical suppression: The time has been. That when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end; but now they rise again With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns, And push us from our stools. (3.4.77-81) Suppressions...

..."no exit" from existence, its phantom return through the fissures through which one has driven it. "The times have been, that when the Brains were out, the man would dye, and there an end; But now they rise again . . . and push us from our stools. This is more strange...

...gentle weal; / Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd /Too terrible for the ear: the time has been, /That, when the brains were out, the man would...die, / And there an end; but now, they rise again, / With twenty mortal murthers on their crowns, / And push us from our stools. This is more strange...

...gentle weal; Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear. The time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end. But now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns.22 HECATE But why stands Macbeth thus amazedly?23 MACBETH...

...inasmuch as Macbeth is referring to two former periods, — before human laws existed, and since then. That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, 80 With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools : this is more strange Than...