The Masks of Anthony and CleopatraUniversity 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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Pàgina 12
... moment of closest ( divine ) immortality . Anthony is great , both in reputation and in his vision of himself : yet he has moments of terrible failure , both as a general and as a man . This double conflict of inner and outer , human ...
... moment of closest ( divine ) immortality . Anthony is great , both in reputation and in his vision of himself : yet he has moments of terrible failure , both as a general and as a man . This double conflict of inner and outer , human ...
Pàgina 26
... moment of testing the limits of social human character , in language so bountiful , beyond even the sounding eloquence of the earlier great plays , it leaves us in awe . Is the play a tragedy ? The question has worried some of us , who ...
... moment of testing the limits of social human character , in language so bountiful , beyond even the sounding eloquence of the earlier great plays , it leaves us in awe . Is the play a tragedy ? The question has worried some of us , who ...
Pàgina 33
... moment by moment for their frailties ? Or did the playwright want us to be bonded to these lovers through all their vagaries ; to be led linearly even to hope for and then rejoice in Anthony's momentary land victory that promises the ...
... moment by moment for their frailties ? Or did the playwright want us to be bonded to these lovers through all their vagaries ; to be led linearly even to hope for and then rejoice in Anthony's momentary land victory that promises the ...
Pàgina 41
... moments , we are offered divided responses to the play and its characters . Finally we will each have to trust our ... moment . But now for the conflicting perspectives . Shakespeare faces us at once with confrontation , in the person ...
... moments , we are offered divided responses to the play and its characters . Finally we will each have to trust our ... moment . But now for the conflicting perspectives . Shakespeare faces us at once with confrontation , in the person ...
Pàgina 42
... moment . These two , we learn quickly , share eagerness for life , manifested in outpourings of soaring poetry . " Be a child o ' th ' time , " Anthony will urge Caesar : Now ! Now ! Catch at life ! The spirit of life ! Central to this ...
... moment . These two , we learn quickly , share eagerness for life , manifested in outpourings of soaring poetry . " Be a child o ' th ' time , " Anthony will urge Caesar : Now ! Now ! Catch at life ! The spirit of life ! Central to this ...
Continguts
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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 |
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Passatges populars
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.