Antony and CleopatraPenguin UK, 7 апр. 2005 г. - Всего страниц: 336 'Shakespeare's play is death-haunted from the start, and its self-glorifying lovers exist in a dream of passion' Guardian |
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... deaths of their protagonists. Although in performance Shakespeare's characters can give the impression of a superabundant reality, he is not a naturalistic dramatist. None of his plays is explicitly set in his own time. The action of ...
... death is the price Aeneas has to pay for the empire. When he meets her in the underworld in Book VI he weeps at the thought of her suicide; until that moment he has only heard rumours about it. Dido remains silent and unmoved as 'if she ...
... -one years after the battle of Actium which ended in the defeat and eventual deaths of Antony and Cleopatra. Tiberius, Augustus' successor, was emperor during the birth of Christ, and whatever his shortcomings may have.
... death' (V.2.294). By infusing the natural elements with agency and sense Shakespeare turns Cleopatra's pageant at Cydnus into a distinctly Ovidian scene. The river's infatuation with Cleopatra moreover chimes with the reaction of the ...
... deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Shortly before her death she acknowledges that 'the fleeting moon' was her planet all along until she prepares to die; only then does she become 'marbleconstant' (V.2.240). Her changeability, and indeed ...