 | Frederick Kiefer - 1996 - 394 pages
...impossible, to expunge. Macbeth's words to the Doctor suggest the capacity of memory to afflict the present: "Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, / Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, / Raze out the written troubles of the brain?" (5.3.40-42). The very act of remembering can harbor... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1997 - 76 pages
...Wood couldn't come marching to Dunsinane, could they? MACBETH: How does your patient, doctor? DOCTOR: Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies That keep her from her rest. MACBETH: Cure her of that. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted... | |
 | Karl Jaspers - 1997 - 532 pages
...In Macbeth the doctor utters a harsh truth. Macbeth asks him: How does your patient, doctor? DOCTOR: Not so sick, my Lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies, That keep her from her rest. MACBETH: Cure her of that; Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased; Pluck from the memory a rooted... | |
 | Steven Blakemore - 1997 - 284 pages
...suggestive echoes of Lady Macbeth's guilty conscience, a conscience Macbeth wishes erased or cleansed: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1997 - 308 pages
...is the earliest citation). Compare 'scour' (57). 38 sick ie physically (as opposed to mentally) ill. As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies That keep her from her rest. MACBETH Cure her of that. 40 Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted... | |
 | Richard Earl Miller - 1998 - 266 pages
...castle, Macbeth turns to the doctor and asks after Lady Macbeth's health, only to be informed that "she is troubled with thick-coming fancies / That keep her from her rest." Macbeth then makes this desperate plea to the doctor: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 2019 - 522 pages
...(p. 70) August 20, 1984 PATIENTS Shakespeare, William MACBETH: How does your patient, doctor? DOCTOR: Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies That keep her from her rest. Unknown Quoth Doctor Squill of Ponder's End, "Of all the patients I attend Whate'er their aches or... | |
 | Rollo May - 1999 - 292 pages
...on her hand, and Macbeth and the doctor he has called watch her, Macbeth pleads with the physician, Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain . . . The destiny of Macbeth, we assume, is a combination... | |
 | Michael C. Schoenfeldt - 1999 - 224 pages
...resembles that of the insane Lady Macbeth. When Macbeth frantically demands of the attending doctor Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd? Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1995 - 866 pages
...Macbeth asks the doctor to cure Lady Macbeth of the 'thickcoming fancies | That keep her from her rest : 'Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, | Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow. | Raze out the written troubles of the brain.' 4. Shirley has similar, and pervasive, imagery of sharp,... | |
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Cure her of that: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon... 
