Julius Caesar'Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war, |
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... line selfcontained in sense, the prose as well as the verse employing elaborate figures of speech. Writing at a time of linguistic ferment, Shakespeare frequently imports Latinisms into English, coining words such as abstemious ...
... line selfcontained in sense, the prose as well as the verse employing elaborate figures of speech. Writing at a time of linguistic ferment, Shakespeare frequently imports Latinisms into English, coining words such as abstemious ...
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... line from Henry VI, Part III, implying that Shakespeare was already an established playwright. It seems likely that at some unknown point after the birth of his twins he joined a theatre company and gained experience as both actor and ...
... line from Henry VI, Part III, implying that Shakespeare was already an established playwright. It seems likely that at some unknown point after the birth of his twins he joined a theatre company and gained experience as both actor and ...
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... lines derive from printed writings; but the structuring and translation of these narratives into dramatic terms is Shakespeare's own, and he invents much additional material. Most of the plays contain elements of myth and legend, and ...
... lines derive from printed writings; but the structuring and translation of these narratives into dramatic terms is Shakespeare's own, and he invents much additional material. Most of the plays contain elements of myth and legend, and ...
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... line appears in the published text as 'Know, Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause | Will he be satisfied' (III.1.47–8), and the anomaly is sometimes explained as a sheepish revision in response to Jonson's criticism that it is ...
... line appears in the published text as 'Know, Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause | Will he be satisfied' (III.1.47–8), and the anomaly is sometimes explained as a sheepish revision in response to Jonson's criticism that it is ...
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... line can have a powerful impact when played to an audience, rather than just to the onstage characters. Before any live performance there is always an atmosphere of pleasurable anticipation among the assembled playgoers, which reaches ...
... line can have a powerful impact when played to an audience, rather than just to the onstage characters. Before any live performance there is always an atmosphere of pleasurable anticipation among the assembled playgoers, which reaches ...
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action actor appear assassination audience battle bear better blood body Brutus called Capitol Casca Cassius cause characters Cinna comes common conspirators dangerous dead death Decius doth effect Elizabethan enemies Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fear fire Flavius friends give gods hand hath hear heart hold honour Italy Julius Caesar keep kill later leave lines live look lord Lucilius Lucius March Mark Antony matter meaning meet Messala mind moved murder nature never night noble Octavius offered once performance perhaps play PLEBEIAN Plutarch political Portia present reading reason reference rest Roman Rome scene Senate SERVANT Shakespeare sick soldiers speak speech spirit stage stand statue suggested sword tell theatre thee things thou Titinius took true turn unto wrong