| Dieter Mehl - Drama - 1986 - 286 pages
...a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. 140 The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (11.1.63-9) The way crucial moral experiences are dramatized is very similar to that in the 'great'... | |
| Wolfgang Clemen - English drama - 1987 - 232 pages
...a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: 65 The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. Enter Lucius. Luc. Sir, 'tis your brother Cassius at the door, 70 Who doth desire to see you. Bru.... | |
| Richard P. Blackmur - Literary Collections - 1989 - 312 pages
...and sensitive mind. One thinks of Brutus, in Shakespeare's play, just before the murder of Caesar: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in...kingdom suffers then The nature of an insurrection. But where Brutus acted upon the stage of history and in the dimensions of a hero. Captain Vere acted... | |
| Charles A. Hallett, Elaine S. Hallett - Drama - 1991 - 248 pages
...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...instruments Are then in council; and the state of a man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (Beat 2.1.61-9) Lucius... | |
| Henry Fielding - Fiction - 1992 - 770 pages
...by Shakespeare 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...Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a litde kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.391 Though the violence of his passion had... | |
| Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...passage in full: '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...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.' [Julius Caesar II. 1.63) There is no ubiquitous psychopathology of homicide. 'Between the acting of... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like l plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. These Enter LUCIUS. LUCIUS. Sir, 'tis your brother Cassius at the door, Who doth desire to see you. Is he... | |
| Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...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...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (2.1.61-69) The generalizing rhetoric of this speech subtly counteracts the problem it describes. The... | |
| B. C. Southam - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 292 pages
...11.72-90: cf. 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...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (Julius Caesar n, i, see note ii, page 2.04) But there may have been a more immediate allusion. Eliot... | |
| Peter J. Leithart - Christianity and literature. - 1996 - 288 pages
...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...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (2.1.61-69) We cannot imagine that Cassius lost any sleep or that he would have called the assassination... | |
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