 | 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 2004 - 828 pages
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 | Stephen Greenblatt - 2004 - 460 pages
...molten state of consciousness in which he finds himself: Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma...The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in counsel, and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.... | |
 | Donald DeMarco, Benjamin Wiker - 2004 - 412 pages
...anticipates the tragedies of Hamlet, Othello, Lear, and Macbeth: Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma...The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council.1 Ideas have consequences. Bad philosophies produce bad results. Ethical values are not neutral.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Shapiro - 2005 - 440 pages
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 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 292 pages
...Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept. 65 Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma...instruments Are then in council, and the state of man, 70 Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. Enter Lucius. LUCIUS Sir,... | |
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I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers... 
