HeyJaredStrange Mutations: Shakespeare line by line
Moving on from King Lear to Antony and Cleopatra. Subject to correction.
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Equal affection (opens the original)
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Just a quick note, before returning to the play later this week, on a connection that suddenly dawned on me.Auden ends his 1947 lecture on Antony and Cleopatra by musing, “If we had to burn all of Shakespear
Antony and Cleopatra II.vi.61-81 (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published[POMPEY We’ll feast each other ere we part, and let’s Draw lots who shall begin. ANTONY That will I, Pompey.] POMPEY No, Antony, take the lot. But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar Grew fat with feasting there. ANTONY You have heard much. POMPEY I have fair meanings, sir. ANTONY
Antony and Cleopatra II.vi.48-61 (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedPOMPEY Let me have your hand. I did not think, sir, to have met you here. ANTONY The beds i’th’ East are soft; and thanks to you, That called me timelier than my purpose hither, For I have gained by’t. CAESAR Since I saw you last, There’s a change upon you. POMPEY Well, I know not What counts harsh Fortune casts upon my face, But in my bosom shall she never come T
Antony and Cleopatra II.vi.35-52 (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published[LEPIDUS Be pleased to tell us— For this is from the present—how you take The offers we have sent you. CAESAR There’s the point. ANTONY Which do not be entreated to, but weigh What it is worth embraced. CAESAR And what may follow To try a larger fortune.] You have made me offer Of Sicily, Sardinia; and I mu
Antony and Cleopatra II.vi.23-34 (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published[POMPEY And that is it Hath made me rig my navy, at whose burden The angered ocean foams, with which I meant To scourge th’ingratitude that despiteful Rome Cast on my noble father.] CAESAR Take your time. ANTONY Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails. We’ll speak with thee at sea. At land thou know’st How much we do o’ercount thee. POMPEY
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