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NOTE1850

SHAKSPEARE'S GRIEF AND FRENZY

By C. FORBES. (Temple)

I have looked into many an edition of Shakspeare, but I have not found one that traced the connexion that I fancy exists between the lines— *Cassius.* "I did not think you could have been so angry." *Brutus.* "O Cassius! I am sick of many griefs." or between *Brutus.* "No man bears sorrow better.—Portia is dead." *Cassius.* "How 'scaped I killing when I crossed you so!" *Julius Cæsar*, Act iv. Sc. 3. which will perhaps better suit the object that I have in view. The editors whose notes I have examined probably thought the connexion so self-evident or insignificant as not to require either noti…

Topics: Shakespearean Drama, Grief and Frenzy, Literary Analysis