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Chad
04-01-2017, 08:02 PM
There is a great quote within Macbeth that I'm trying to locate where they say his face smacks of every sins adjective. Any help getting the exact quote would be very appreciated.

stanley2
04-08-2017, 03:06 PM
I think you must have in mind the lengthy conversation between Malcolm and Macduff where we find: "I grant him bloody, / Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, / Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin / That has a name"(4.3.58-60). In the new Arden edition(2015) the editors wrote: "The scene has been condemned for dullness by many critics(e.g. Booth, KING LEAR, 108-10), and is sometimes shortened in production."

stanley2
07-25-2017, 11:50 AM
The question, as written, also might recall a line from the King: "There's no art / To find the mind's construction in the face"(1.4.12). The editors of the new Arden edition tell us that Professor Dent noted the proverbial saying: "The face is no index to the heart" from a classical text.