Macbeth (redirected fromFair is foul, and foul is fair) Dictionary Macbeth Macbeth(măkbĕthˈ), d. 1057, king of Scotland (1040–57). He succeeded his father as governor of the province of Moray c.1031 and was a military commander for Duncan I. In 1040 he killed Duncan in battle...
The perversion of the poetic tropes is paralleled by a perversion of the process of signification brought about by the prophetic formula of 'Fair is foul and foul is fair'. Macbeth's tragedy is not only a tragedy of exaggerated ambition and uncontrolled wrath...
19、The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 5.1) 疯子、情人、诗人都是想象的产儿。——《仲夏夜之梦》 20、Beauty, wit, high birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, love, friendship, charity, are subjects all to envious and calum...
clergy, including the pope himself, were reluctant to believe such charges against the Knights Templar, it soon became apparent that the order had become too wealthy and powerful to fit suitably into the emerging political structure of France and the aspirations of its king, Philip the Fair. Th...