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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... "
The works of William Shakespeare, the text revised by A. Dyce - Page 628
by William Shakespeare - 1865
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The Classical Tradition : Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature ...

Gilbert Highet - Literary Criticism - 1949 - 802 pages
...instead of playful myth. And it showed him more. Listen. Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful...all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.83 That is a new voice. It is the voice of Brutus. But beyond it we can hear the sombre brooding...
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Shakespeare's Soliloquies

Wolfgang Clemen - English drama - 1987 - 232 pages
...Go to the gate; somebody knocks. 60 [Exit Lucius.] Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful...the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: 65 The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little...
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Analyzing Shakespeare's Action: Scene Versus Sequence

Charles A. Hallett, Elaine S. Hallett - Drama - 1991 - 248 pages
...the gate, somebody knocks. (Beat 2.1.59-60) BRUTUS Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful...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...
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Shakespeare as Prompter: The Amending Imagination and the Therapeutic Process

Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...trigger has been pulled. Let us now see the passage in full: '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, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.' [Julius Caesar II. 1.63)...
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William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage, Volume 5

Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...author puts into the mouth of Brutus, in his Julius Ccesar: Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,...the mortal instruments Are then in council, and the whole state of man Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. [2.1.63ff.]...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...good. Go to the gate; somebody knocks, [Ежа LUCIUS. Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, s like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be...won, Save base authority from others' books. These man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. Enter LUCIUS. LUCIUS. Sir,...
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Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays

Peter J. Leithart - Christianity and literature. - 1996 - 288 pages
...Later, after Cassius's intense recruitment, he muses, Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful...instruments Are then in council, and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (2.1.61-69) We cannot imagine...
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The Unmasking of Drama: Contested Representation in Shakespeare's Tragedies

Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...Hamlet is a suspicion of the generalizing turn of mind: Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful...instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (2.1.61-69) The generalizing...
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A Guide to the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot

B. C. Southam - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 292 pages
...dance has become a modern infertility dance. 11.72-90: cf. 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, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (Julius Caesar n, i, see...
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Players of Shakespeare 4: Further Essays in Shakespearean Performance by ...

Robert Smallwood - Drama - 1998 - 228 pages
...then goes on to rouse that same emotion in Brutus: Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful...the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. (ni 61-5) That 'first motion' is begun because of Cassius's poison. It is reasonable to suppose that...
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