 | Stephen Greenblatt - 2004 - 460 pages
...his orchard in the middle of night, Brutus begins to speak: It must be by his death. And for my part I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crowned. How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 224 pages
...in the very curious soliloquy at the beginning of Act II: It must be by his death: and for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crowned: How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 292 pages
...call me here. LUCIUS I will, my lord. He exits. BRUTUS It must be by his death. And for my part 10 I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crowned: How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - 2006 - 186 pages
...pronounce assassination as the aim of the conspirators: "It must be by his death; and for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown'd" (2.1.10-12). As yet, this is only a presupposition on the part of Brutus;... | |
 | Ernest Pertwee - 2006 - 281 pages
...taken,] SHAKESPEARE'S JULIUS CMSAR, Act II. Scene I. Bru. It must be by his death | : and, for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, | But for the general | He would be crowned ;— | How that might change his nature, | there's the question : | It... | |
 | E. Beatrice Batson - 2006 - 198 pages
...self-love is becoming uncontrollable; yet he generously admits Caesar's customary rational self-control: I know no personal cause to spurn at him But for the general. He would be crown'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question. Th' abuse of... | |
 | Peggy O'Brien - 2006 - 244 pages
...can assent to killing Caesar, as opposed to the individual self whom Caesar has loved and favored: "I know no personal cause to spurn at him, / But for the general" (2.1.11-12) — that is, the public good. Antony harps on this violation of the personal tie... | |
 | Sandra Clark - 2007 - 465 pages
...unable to find sufficient justification in Caesar's behaviour for an assassination: . . . for my part I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crowned. How that might change his nature, there's the question. Th'abuse of greatness... | |
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How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with. 
