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Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra. The Battle of the Sexes. Variety and subtlety in the art of persuasion. Look…see this Herculean Roman does become the carriage of his chafe Riotous madness, to be entangled with those mouth-made vows If you find him sad say I am dancing: if in mirth say I am sudden sick

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Antony and Cleopatra

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  1. Antony and Cleopatra The Battle of the Sexes

  2. Variety and subtlety in the art of persuasion • Look…see this Herculean Roman does become the carriage of his chafe • Riotous madness, to be entangled with those mouth-made vows • If you find him sad say I am dancing: if in mirth say I am sudden sick • O, never was there queen so mightily betrayed • I am quickly ill, and well. So Antony loves • I shall fall. It cannot be thus long, the sides of nature will not sustain it. • I have no power upon you; hers you are. • Now I see, I see in Fulvia’s death, how mine received shall be • Good now, play one scene of excellent dissembling and let it look like perfect honour • Thou the greatest soldier of the world art turned the greatest liar

  3. What do these mean? • Mouth-made vows • None our parts so poor but was a race of heaven • Eternity was in our lips and eyes • Though age from folly could not give me freedom • Italy shines o’er with civil swords • Equality of two domestic powers breeds scrupulous faction • The garboils she awaked

  4. Rome’s view of Antony • The abstract of all faults that men follow • His faults, in him, seem as the spots of heaven, more fiery by night’s blackness • His faults…hereditary rather than purchased • Our great competitor • Give a kingdom for a mirth • Reel the streets at noon • He fishes, he drinks, he wastes the lamps of night in revel • Is not more manlike than Cleopatra • Hardly gave audience, or vouchsafed to think he had partners • Pawn…experience to …present pleasure and so rebel to judgement

  5. In Act 1 Scene 4… • Why is Antony’s behaviour so inappropriate at this time? • How has Pompey’s reputation changed and why? • What is happening at sea? • Who or what is like a reed in a stream? • What extremes did Antony endure when he was a soldier? • What evidence is there that Lepidus does not trust Caesar?

  6. Cleopatra Antony • Serpent • Give me to drink mandragora • My Antony • Poison • A morsel for a monarch • He shall have every day a several greeting or I’ll unpeople Egypt • My salad days when I was green in judgement, cold in thought • How much unlike MA art thou • Happy horse to bear the weight of A • His speech sticks in my heart • For he would shine on those that make their looks by his • Brave Antony

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