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Select plays [5 plays], with notes and an intr. to each play and a life of ... - Page 352
by William Shakespeare - 1848
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Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne: Power and Subjectivity from Richard ...

Hugh Grady - 2002 - 320 pages
...with the interim before grand, defining historical acts: Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma...to a little kingdom, suffers then The Nature of an insurrection.74 Brutus' images are coloured by a Stoic sensibility seeking internal harmony under the...
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Lectures on Shakespeare

Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 pages
...thing that can throw the detached man into perturbation, as Brutus shows, is the prospect of action: Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I...the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. (II.i.61-65) There is really a will in Brutus to commit suicide, and when he finally does so, he has...
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What I Cannot Say to You: Stories

Vanessa Furse Jackson - 2003 - 190 pages
...just — just an imaginary friend, that's all." _yv om a Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. Julius Caesar 2.1.63-69. like to think they go to the moon," she said, "but they don't really get there."...
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Misanthropology: A Florilegium of Bahumbuggery

Reneau H. Reneau - 2003 - 230 pages
...two golden bars. VENI has adopted the McHale standard. "Between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interim is like a phantasma,...kingdom, suffers then the nature of an insurrection" (from Julius Caesar). Jick's comparison of captains to lieutenants owes a debt to Aldous Huxley's pillowtalk...
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Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare - 2003 - 164 pages
...wasted fifteen days. Knocking within BRUTUS Tis good. Go to the gate; somebody knocks. [Exit Lucius 60 Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I...the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream. 65 The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little...
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Shakespeare, Italy, and Intertextuality

Michele Marrapodi - 2004 - 292 pages
...against Caesar, I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The...Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of insurrection. (2.2.61-9) 'Acting' - to act - is used here in the sense of 'to enact', or 'to decide...
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Focus on Macbeth

John Russell Brown - 2005 - 280 pages
...provides the play's characteristic vision, of a kind by Brvmis in ths tartar playj /ifc tan (ll.i): Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (II. i. 6 1-9) The 'hideous interim' in Macbeth centres on the vision of the dagger in II. i, where...
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The Practical Shakespeare: The Plays in Practice and on the Page

Colin Butler - 2005 - 217 pages
...within him is communicated, in transposed form, as uncertainty about the time and as sleeplessness: Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I...instruments Are then in council; and the state of a man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (2.1) This speech, incidentally,...
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The Problem Plays of Shakespeare: A Study of Julius Caesar, Measure for ...

Ernest Schanzer - 2005 - 216 pages
...made. This, I take it, is the meaning of the much disputed Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (a-1 -63-9) While his mind considers the various possible ways of carrying out the murder (pictured...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 2007 - 1288 pages
...good. Go to the gate; somebody knocks, [Exit LUCIUS. Since Cassius first did whet me against Cxsar, 0 Enter LUCIUS. LUCIUS. Sir, 'tis your brother Cassius at the door, Who doth desire to see you. Is he...
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