Critical Article On MacBeth
Beginning of paper
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".
William Empso ....
Middle of paper
.... Certain lines to MacBeth, which Empson described as essential, were
disregarded by Robertson as having "no sense". This paragraph shows an
example of what Robertson disregarded:
"But cruel are the times, when we are traitors And do not know
ourselves, when we hold rumour From what we fear, yet know not what we
fear, Each way and move."
Robertson, after contemplating this passage, remarked that this is
"certainly not Shakespeare's" because of the earlier point based ....
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