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Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. Latin liturgy. In the 13th century hymns written in medieval Latin, the Dies Irae (0000) is ...
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair" —William Shakespeare, Macbeth [5] "And we'll lead, not merely by the example of our power, but by the power of our example." —Joe Biden, 2021 inaugural address [6] "All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime" —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray [7]
The phrase "fair is foul, and foul is fair" is echoed at many points in the play, a combination that mixes the concepts of good and evil. The play also features the central motif of the washing of hands, one that combines both verbal images and the movement of the actors.
Foul papers are an author's working drafts. The term is most often used in the study of the plays of Shakespeare and other dramatists of English Renaissance drama . Once the composition of a play was finished, a transcript or " fair copy " of the foul papers was prepared, by the author or by a scribe.
In one sermon in 1605, Lancelot Andrewes stated, regarding the failure of the Plotters on God's day, "Be they fair or foul, glad or sad (as the poet calleth Him) the great Diespiter, 'the Father of days' hath made them both." [35] Shakespeare begins the play by using the words "fair" and "foul" in the first speeches of the witches and Macbeth ...
When shall we three meet again? (Ahem, ahem.) After taking a year off from indoor screenings due to COVID-19, the New York Film Festival returned to Alice Tully Hall on Friday night with the world ...
Ariana Grande is taking it all in stride.. Fans of the pop star are up in arms after a reporter on the red carpet of the Golden Globes asked the actress if her grandmother was "still alive.". In ...
Millions of Americans should prepare for an Arctic blast that will blanket much of the country in below-freezing temperatures over the next several days. Frigid conditions are expected over a ...