"A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye" says Horatio about the ghost and likens its appearance to the ominous events in ancient Rome before the murder of Julius Caesar. ... By adding these elements of background information it creates a plot that should be very cerebral and creates a tone for a big scale tragedy. ...
To this day, expressions such as 'too much of a good thing' (As You Like It), 'in my mind's eye' (Hamlet), 'it was Greek to me' (Julius Caesar), 'break the ice' (The Taming of the Shrew) and 'bated breath' (The Merchant of Venice) are used in everyday speech and writing. ... In particular, it was Shakespeare's ability to effortlessly mingle comedy with tragedy that led to his fame, and what makes his works invaluable even today. ...
Not only has he created such characters with strong charisma, but his themes- love, betrayal, esteem, bravery and political tragedy are yet still very much alive today. ... It consisted collections of Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies.The plays included Antony and Cleopatra,The two noble kinsmen, Macbeth and Julius Caesar. ...
In the second century AD the Sophist philosopher Artemidorus of Daldis (who makes two brief and enigmatic appearances in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar) drew together the wisdom of earlier centuries, much of it already collected in the great library of the Babylonian King Asurna at Ninevah. ... Similarly, a retrospective appeal in the British press for dreams connected with the tragedy at Aberfan, a coalmining town in Wales where an avalanche of coal waste buried 140 people alive, produced impressive results that led to the establishment in 1967 of both the British Premonitions Bureau and t...
