| Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 212 Seiten
...Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune; the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present...shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I' th' posture of a whore. (v, i1, 206-20)' Cleopatra dazzlingly holds up a mirror to the world of... | |
| Claire McEachern - 2002 - 310 Seiten
...Octavius, Cleopatra imagines herself a captive in Rome, chief trophy amongst the victor's spoils: The quick comedians Extemporally will stage us and present Our...shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I'th'posture of a whore. (5.2.215-20) The Egyptian queen pictures this public display in the terms... | |
| Millicent Bell - 2002 - 316 Seiten
...affair: Saucy lictors Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune. The quick comedians Extemporally will stage us and present Our...shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I' th' posture of a whore. Once more, the theater metaphor reminds us of the view Shakespeare seems... | |
| P. E. Easterling, Edith Hall - 2002 - 550 Seiten
...she and Antony will become the subjects of ribald, cross-dressed comedy at Rome (5.2.216): The quick comedians extemporally will stage us and present our...shall see some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I' th' posture of a whore. But it is not just general accounts of ancient actors' performances that... | |
| David Schalkwyk - 2002 - 284 Seiten
...Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune. The quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present...shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I' th' posture of a whore. (5.2.210-17)" The 'impossible' perception of both aspects at the same time... | |
| Ewan Fernie - 2002 - 298 Seiten
...popular entertainments - ballads and the like - this ironic suggestion becomes more explicit: the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us and present Our...shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I'the posture of a whore. (5.2.215-20) These words must be imagined in the mouth of the Jacobean boy... | |
| George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 Seiten
...knows the Roman stage will parody their love, emphasizing its more material forms: . . . the quick comedians, Extemporally will stage us, and present...shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I' the posture of a whore. (v. ii. 216) The love theme is closely welded with all this. The more spiritual... | |
| Richmond Tyler Barbour - 2003 - 274 Seiten
...intolerable complement to such exposure would be her enforced viewing of her impersonation: The quick comedians Extemporally will stage us and present Our...shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I'th'posture of a whore. (5.2.215-20) Royal self-presentation is a "mystery of state" because its mimicry... | |
| Patrick Cheney - 2004 - 346 Seiten
...written poetry, see Entcrline, Rhetoric, 188-97. scald rhymers [will] Ballad 's out a' tune. The quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present...shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness F th" posture of a whore. (Antony and Cleopatra, 5. 2. 215-21) Recent criticism has made a good deal... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2004 - 224 Seiten
...Saucy lictors Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers 215 Ballad us out o'tune. The quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present...shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness 220 I'the posture of a whore. IRAS O the good gods! CLEOPATRA Nay, that's certain. IRAS I'll never... | |
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