...shall Caesar bleed in sport, That now on Pompey's basis lies along, No worthier than the dust! CASSIUS: So oft as that shall be, So often shall the knot of us be call'd The men that gave their country liberty. (III. i. 114-18) Whereas for Antony this foul deed...

...ACT 3. sc. l CASSIUS Stoop then, and wash. ^They smear their hands and swords with Caesar's blood."* How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over 125 In States"1 unborn and accents yet unknown! BRUTUS How many tunes shall Caesar bleed in sport,...

...in Caesar's blood," and then makes a pronouncement that leaps at once out of the play's chronology: How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be...acted over In [states] unborn and accents yet unknown! (Julius Caesar, 3.1.105; 111-13). But Brutus would hold on to his superior authority by displacing...

...Wilkes Booth as Mark Antony entered in 3.1 shortly after his brothers had declaimed: 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...

...worldly Cassius instructs the conspirators to bathe their hands in Caesar's blood: Stoop, then, and wash. How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be...acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown? (3.1.111-13) the quotations above with the last moments of Brutus' life, when he constructs his death...

...the secondhandedness of the people's relation to the violent refounding of that republic: 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...

...theater of life?" He's echoing Cassius's great speech in Julius Caesar: "How many ages hence / Shall our lofty scene be acted over / In states unborn and accents yet unknown!" It was this destiny the Swede was meant to fulfill, for all around him. But when Zuckerman, who in...

...But bear it as our Roman actors do, With untired spirits and formal constancy.26 And Cassius says, How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be...acted over, In states unborn, and accents yet unknown! (IIl.il 1 1-113) 24 Jonathan Goldberg, James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare,...

...all, Shakespeare's one of yours: "Stoop, Romans, stoop, and let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood. How many ages hence shall this, our lofty scene, be...acted over in states unborn and accents yet unknown. "Julius Caesar. Act Three, scene one. KALE. But they didn't gel their Republic back. They got five-hundred...