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Metaphors, and senslesse and ambiguous words, are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them, is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities; and their end, contention, and sedition, or contempt. (Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan)
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© 2011 Maria Franziska Fahey
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Fahey, M.F. (2011). Imperfect Speech: Equivocation and Metaphor in Macbeth. In: Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama. Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230308800_4
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