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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... "
Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical - Page 30
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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,...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.' [Julius Caesar II. 1.63) There is no ubiquitous psychopathology of homicide. 'Between the acting of...
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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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Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays

Peter J. Leithart - Christianity and literature. - 1996 - 288 pages
...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 thing...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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The Unmasking of Drama: Contested Representation in Shakespeare's Tragedies

Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...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 thing...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...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...to the gate; somebody knocks, [Ежа LUCIUS. Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search...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...
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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,...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...
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Players of Shakespeare 4: Further Essays in Shakespearean Performance by ...

Robert Smallwood - Drama - 1998 - 228 pages
...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 thing...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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Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art

Ronald Schuchard - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 293 pages
...Superior Landlord," a five-page typescript (Kings 's) related to Sweeney Agonistes. Brutus continues: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection (66-69). 16. "The Duchess of Malfy," Listener 26 (18 December 1941), 8. 17. "Beyle and Balzac," p....
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A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War

Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...Jefferson Davis, and Alexander Stephens Survey the Crisis 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. — William Shakespeare The Civil War, the Gettysburg Address tells us, was a test whether popular...
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Giulio Cesare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 248 pages
...Caesar, I have not slept. Between the acring of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interini is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream : The genius...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. Enter Lucùu LUCIUS Sir, "ris your brother Cassius at the door, Who doth desire to see you. BRUTUS...
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