...Hamlet's father; the question is whether the spirit is an omen: A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...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 eclipse:...

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...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...

...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...

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...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...

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...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...