Another example of Shakespeare's use of overlapping time frames occurs in act three, scene two of Julius Caesar. It is best known for Antony's speech which begins with "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears", and which ends with him having turned the throng completely against the republican side represented by Brutus and Cassius. In it, he proves himself a very able and cynical politician: He doesn't tell the truth about his intentions once. (I can't remember which humourist it was who defined a "gaffe" as "a moment when a politician accidentally tells the truth", but Antony would've concurred.) By the end of his oration, the crowd is beginning to riot, and Antony says to himself: "Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot/ Take thou what course thou wilt." Then enters a servant who brings news that Octavius is come to Rome, and that "Brutus and Cassius are rid like madmen through the gates of Rome". So in real time, the beginning of the riot and their escape would have a separation of about fifteen seconds, which would be most unlikely, if not impossible. But occasions like this one never feel wrong when we experience them in the play. They simply add to the momentum.