 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 pagina’s
...is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius and mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.' (Julius Caesar 2.1.63) An allied and echoing passage from Macbeth presents itself: 'And oftentimes,... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 pagina’s
...dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream: ... and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (63-69) His inward turmoil has its outward parallel in the unnatural happenings of the storm. But what... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pagina’s
...phantasma, or a hideous dream; The genius and 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.] There is an admirable contrast between the characters of Macbeth and his wife. Her harden... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - 1996 - 228 pagina’s
...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 then The nature of an insurrection. (2.1.61-69) The generalizing rhetoric of this speech subtly counteracts the problem it describes. The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pagina’s
...Like a phantasma or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and One word in private with you, ere I die. KATHARINE. Bleat softly then; the butcher hear Enter LUCIUS. LUCIUS. Sir, 'tis your brother Cassius at the door, Who doth desire to see you. Is he... | |
 | B. C. Southam - 1996 - 292 pagina’s
...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 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 - 1996 - 288 pagina’s
...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 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... | |
 | Roger Smith - 1997 - 1070 pagina’s
...When the imagination or senses overwhelm, as Shakespeare portrayed Brutus's feelings in Julius Caesar, 'the state of man, like to a little kingdom, suffers then the nature of an insurrection'.14 As these lines express, human nature and experience gained added significance from... | |
 | Ralph Berry - 1999 - 244 pagina’s
...a layer in the Roman mind. The revolt of act 3, scenes 2 and 3 is the insurrection in Brutus' mind: "the state of man; / Like to a little kingdom, suffers then / The nature of an insurrection." As Coghill observes of the lynching of Cinna, "It is an epiphany of Rome in forty lines."5 It is, and... | |
 | Ronald Schuchard - 1999 - 293 pagina’s
...Sweeney Agonistes. Brutus continues: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little 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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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 then The nature... 
