 | Ivo Kamps - 1995 - 360 pages
...the moment that it seeks to reinforce, the historical and material determinants, of political power: 'How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty scene...over / In states unborn and accents yet unknown!' (III.i.112-14). In an augmentation of the practice of scripting, Brutus urges his accomplices to: 'Let's... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 236 pages
...are we suddenly made to confront the historical fact that their present has become our past? Casca. How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be...acted over, In states unborn, and accents yet unknown! Brutus. How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport, That now on Pompey's basis lies along, No worthier... | |
 | Simon Hillson - 1996 - 762 pages
...supplement what can be shown "within this wooden O"; Caesar is barely dead before Cassius anticipates "How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty scene be acted over" (ni.i.112-13). Humours and satirical drama use formal means to articulate insider judgments. The Induction... | |
 | Stephen Bretzius - 1997 - 180 pages
...describes and the one it performs. What starts out as a question ends as an exclamation when Cassius cries: "How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty scene...over / In states unborn and accents yet unknown!" (3.1.1n-13) — a shift that again sets the performance at odds with the struggle for historical power... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1998 - 390 pages
...place by his famous anticipation of future revivals as theater shows: Cassius. Stoop then, and wash. How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be...acted over. In states unborn, and accents yet unknown! Brutus. How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport, That now on Pompey's basis lies along, No worthier... | |
 | Mark Ringer - 1998 - 276 pages
...in effect to Cassius' lines in Shakespeare's theater when, kneeling over the fallen Caesar, he asks "How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty scene...over / In states unborn and accents yet unknown!" 66 In both the Shakespearean and Sophoclean theater the audience enjoys a double perspective; the past... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - 1998 - 420 pages
...Caesar's blood and Cassius alludes to the fumre theatrical performance which the audience is wimessing 'How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, / In states unbom and accents yet unknown'. Also without a source in Plutarch is Cleopatra's 'The quick comedians... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2003 - 354 pages
...and those of the audience forward to endless re-enactments, both political and theatrical: CASSIUS How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be...acted over, In states unborn and accents yet unknown! BRUTUS How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport, That now on Pompey's basis lies along, No worthier... | |
 | Ian Wilson - 1999 - 564 pages
...their own dramas repeated on stages centuries into the future, as in Casca's lines in Julius Caesar. How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!21 The idea of projecting the theatre of Shakespeare's time forward into our present, of giving... | |
 | Ralph Berry - 1999 - 244 pages
...he touches a deep vein of civic conduct and identity. The actors of the future whom Cassius invokes ("How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty scene be acted over") match the actors of the present. For "actor," like other terms in this play, is not really a universal... | |
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How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport, That now on Pompey's basis lies along, No worthier than the dust ? Cas. 
