The Masks of Anthony and Cleopatra

Portada
University of Delaware Press, 2006 - 605 pàgines
A sensitive and penetrating analysis, scene by scene, act by act, of this most complex and ambiguous of Shakespeare's great plays, seen through the eyes of both the literary critic and the student of theatrical history. As in his earlier Masks books, Marvin Rosenberg has gathered impressions from performance reviews from all over the world, comments by actors and directors, and his own personal experience of the play in rehearsal and staging, and has combined these insights with extensive reading of critical essays and consideration of the thoughts and opinions of his literary colleagues to form an illuminating interpretive study. The book also conveys the author's wholehearted enthusiasm for the play and his profound appreciation of Shakespeare's poetic and dramatic genius. The book, left unfinished at Dr Rosenberg's death in 2003, was edited and completed by his wife, Mary.

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Continguts

Act I Scene i
41
Anthony
70
Cleopatra
80
Act I Scene ii
86
Act I Scene iii
104
Octavius
118
Act I Scene iv
123
Act I Scene v
133
Act III Scene xiii
293
Act Four
315
Act IV Scene i
317
Act IV Scene ii
320
Act IV Scene iii
326
Act IV Scene iv
329
Act IV Scene v
335
Act IV Scene vi
337

Act Two
143
Act II Scene i
145
Act II Scene ii
151
Act II Scene iii
174
Act II Scene iv
180
Act II Scene v
181
Act II Scene vi
197
Act II Scene vii
207
Act Three
225
Act III Scene i
227
Act III Scene ii
231
Act III Scene iii
239
Act III Scene iv
246
Act III Scene v
251
Act III Scene vi
254
Act III Scene vii
262
Act III Scenes viii ix and x
272
Act III Scene xi
278
Act III Scene xii
288
Act IV Scene vii
341
Act IV Scene viii
344
Act IV Scene ix
349
Act IV Scenes x xi xii and xiii
352
Act IV Scene xiv
362
Act IV Scene xv
379
Act Five
393
Act V Scene i
395
Act V Scene ii
403
Is Anthony and Cleopatra a Tragedy?
473
Epilogue
480
A Note on the Historical Cleopatra 69 BC30 BC
482
Critical and Theatrical Bibliographies
489
Critical Bibliography
491
Theatrical Bibliography
532
Tributes from Marvin Rosenbergs Colleagues and Friends
595
Index
597
Copyright

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Pàgina 167 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Pàgina 170 - Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry, Where most she satisfies ; for vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Pàgina 64 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses,- and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; And take...
Pàgina 211 - It is shaped, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it hath breadth ; it is just so high as it is, and moves with it own organs ; it lives by that which nourisheth it ; and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates.
Pàgina 129 - Which beasts would cough at ; thy palate then did deign The roughest berry on the rudest hedge ; Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets, The barks of trees thou browsed'st ; on the Alps It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh, Which some did die to look on ; and all this, It wounds thine honour that I speak it now, Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek So much as lank'd not.
Pàgina 62 - Of the rang'd empire fall ! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man : the nobleness of life Is, to do thus; when such a mutual pair, And such a twain can do 't, in which I bind, On pain of punishment, the world to weet We stand up peerless.
Pàgina 24 - Our women are defective, and so sized, You'd think they were some of the guard disguised ; For to speak truth, men act, that are between Forty and fifty, wenches of fifteen ; With bone so large, and nerve so incompliant, When you call Desdemona, enter giant.
Pàgina 146 - We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers.
Pàgina 303 - But when we in our viciousness grow hard, (O misery on't !) the wise gods seel our eyes ; In our own filth drop our clear judgments ; make us Adore our errors ; laugh at us, while we strut To our confusion.

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