Antony and Cleopatra - Cleopatra

Question 1

If you find him sad…

Answer 1

Say I am dancing

Question 2

Give me mine angle;

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We’ll to the river […] my bended hook shall pierce […] as I draw them up

Question 3

I have seen her…

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Die twenty times upon far poorer moment

Question 4

I little thought /

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You should have followed

Question 5

He is a god…

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And knows / what is most right

Question 6

No more but e’en…

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A woman, and commanded / by such a poor passion as the maid that milks […] if it were for me / to throw my sceptre at the injurious gods […]

Question 7

Patience is sottish, …

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And impatience does / become a dog that’s mad

Question 8

Sole sir…

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O’th’world

Question 9

Mine will now be yours, /

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[…] yours would be mine

Question 10

If she first meet…

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The curled Antony,/ he’ll make demand of her

Question 11

The gold I give thee…

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Well I melt and pour/ down thy ill-uttering throat

Question 12

Thou shalt be whipped…

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With wire, and stewed in brine

Question 13

By sea,

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What else?

Question 14

If knife, …

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Drugs, serpents, have/edge, sting, or operation, I am safe

Question 15

Fortune break…

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Her wheel,/provoked by my offence

Question 16

I shall show…

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The cinders of my spirits/through th’ashes of my chance

Question 17

Mechanical slaves/

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With greasy aprons, […] in their thick breaths,/rank of gross diet, shall we be enclouded/and forced to drink their vapour

Question 18

The quick comedians/

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Extemporally will stage us and present/our Alexandrian revels […] I shall see/some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness/i’th’posture of a whore

Question 19

Now from head to foot /

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I am marble-constant; now the fleeting moon / no planet is of mine

Question 20

Give me my robe.

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Put on my crown. I have/immortal longings in me

Question 21

Eternity was…

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In our lips and eyes

Question 22

O, my oblivion…

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Is a very Antony / and I am all forgotten

Question 23

But I might sleep out…

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This great gap of time

Question 24

My salad days…

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When I was green in judgement

Question 25

Though he be painted…

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One way like a Gorgon,/the other way’s a Mars

Question 26

Dull of…

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Tongue, and dwarfish

Question 27

If I be so, /

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From my cold heart let heaven engender hail,/and poison it in the source, and the first stone/drop in my neck; as it determines, so/dissolve my life!

RSC version: cleo is gentle
Globe: cleo is angry

Question 28

Thou art /

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The armourer of my heart

Question 29

Oh Sun,/

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Burn the great sphere thou I mov’st in; darkling stand/the varying shore o’th’world

Question 30

The crown o’th’earth…

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Doth melt. My lord! / o, withered is the garland of the war; / the soldier’s pole is fall’n!

Question 31

His face was…

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As the heav’ns, and therein struck / The sun and moon, which kept their course and lighted / the little O, the earth

Question 32

O, couldst thou speak,/

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That I might hear thee call Caesar ass/ unpolicied

Question 33

Cleopatra is:

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A “consistent inconsistency” - Anna Brownell Jameson

Question 34

“What deconstructs…

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Political order in the play is desire, and the figure for this is Cleopatra. In predictably patriarchal style, Cleopatra is portrayed as capricious and self-contradictory, undoing all coherence in her exasperating inconsistency.”

Terry Eagleton

Question 35

Linda Fitz on Cleo

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She “learns and grows as Antony does not […] Shakespeare has taken pains to let Cleopatra explain her contrary behaviour […] cleopatra’s variety is,at last, finite”

Question 36

Katharine Ott on Octavia v Cleo

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“Octavia exemplifies Rome itself […] Highlighting Cleopatra’s foreign nature and her sexuality, which the Romans find unattractive and unacceptable”.