...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...

...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...

...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...

...Hamlet contains a number of significant references to Rome. Very early in the play, Horatio declares. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...Neptune's empire stands. Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.1 This sets the scene for a number of other references to Rome, to individual Romans, and to...

...moment from the last trumpet that will herald "the great day of wrath" and Christ's return to the earth: A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets At stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose...