Antony And Cleopatra: Suicide Flashcards
O Sun,/
Burn the great sphere thou I mov’st in; darkling stand/the varying shore o’th’world
The crown o’th’earth
Doth melt. My lord! / o, withered is the garland of the war; / the soldier’s pole is fall’n!
How heavy
Weighs my lord!
RSC: scene played for laughs, like in the Globe
His face was…
As the heav’ns, and therein struck / The sun and moon, which kept their course and lighted / the little O, the earth
There is left us/
Ourselves to end ourselves.
[A had decided to commit suicide before hearing about C]
Heart, once be stronger…
Than thy continent;/ crack thy frail case!
Wouldst thou be windowed…
In great Rome and see / thy master thus with pleached arms, bending down / his corrigible neck, his face subdued / to penetrative shame
Thrice nobler than myself! […]
How, not dead? Not dead?
Wherein I lived the greatest…
Prince o’th’world, / the noblest; and do now not basket die, / […] a Roman by a Roman valiantly vanquished.
Let’s do’t after…
The high Roman fashion […] come, we have no friend/ but resolution and the briefest end.
[metatheatrical language - a certain self-consciousness]
The breaking of…
So great a thing should make/ a greater crack.
The quick comedians/
Extemporally will stage us and present/our Alexandrian revels […] I shall see/some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness/i’th’posture of a whore
Now from head to foot/
I am marble-constant; now the fleeting moon / no planet is of mine
Give me my robe.
Put on my crown. I have / immortal longings in me
If she first meet…
The curlèd Antony, / he’ll make demand of her
