 | Michael Millgate, Keith G. Wilson - Literary Collections - 2006 - 304 pages
...is 'Thinking it the king.' Textual Interpretations. When Horatio says that in Julius Caesar's time, 'The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead...fire, and dews of blood, / Disasters in the sun,' Hardy notes that the last phrases are not simply a list, but constitute a new thought: he thus suggests... | |
 | Jill Line - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 192 pages
...Unnatural phenomena terrify in the streets and reflect the anger of the gods in cosmic pyrotechnics: The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead...trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun . . . 1.1.118-21 Injulius Caesar itself, as the senators plot the murder, the fearful Casca speaks... | |
 | Laurie E. Maguire - Self-Help - 2006 - 214 pages
...death. His friend Horatio describes the supernatural portents surrounding the death of Julius Caesar: A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. . . . and the moist star . . . Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. (1.1.114-20) These inflated... | |
 | E. Beatrice Batson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 178 pages
...that of the future PaxRomana is suggested in the opening scene of Hamlet, when Horatio recalls that A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. (1.1.114—16) Moments later, Marcellus reports that "ever 'gainst that season comes / Wherein our... | |
 | Lisa Hopkins - Drama - 2008 - 161 pages
...references to Rome. Very early in the play, Horatio declares. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell. The graves...trains of fire and dews of blood. Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands. Was sick almost to doomsday with... | |
 | Andreas Höfele, Stephan Laqué, Enno Ruge - History - 2007 - 346 pages
...moment from the last trumpet that will herald "the great day of wrath" and Christ's return to the earth: A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets At stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose... | |
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In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets : As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun, and... 
