...raises the issue of'femininity'. She implores 'Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here; and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, stop up th'access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious...

...first act of Macbeth may be taken as an example: Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, Stop up th'access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious...

...the custom at Passover. (Matthew 27). Cruelty 1 Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, Stop up th 'access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious...

...puzzlement about a woman's power of being bad: Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here. And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse. That no compunctious...

...fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Macbeth came home. He and Lady Macbeth talked about King Duncan's visit. He would stay...

...raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty. (Enter MACBETH.) Great Claim's, worthy Cawdor! Greater than both by the all-hail hereafter!...

...fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood, Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious...

...murderous plot against the king of Scotland: . . . Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious...

...ungewöhnliches Verhalten auffallt. Erstens schwört sie explizit ihrer weiblichen Natur ab ( „unsex me here, / And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full / Of direst cruelty", I, v, 41-43); zweitens schlafwandelt sie, was 68 vgl. Suerbaum, Ulrich. Shakespeares...

...murderous plot against the king of Scotland: . . . Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious...