guest: Gretchen Menten
handout: history Antony & Cleopatra continuance of Julius Ceaser
44- Assasination of Ceaser
*Pay attention to place names and maps while reading
Antony & Cleopatra
High School, sexual references, a lot of characters
Scene 1
Nay is the first word spoken
presence of rumor or report
"The common liar"-Antony
Antony and Cleopatra are never alone together onstage and there are no monologues in the show
Act II scene 2
Speech on when A&C 1st meet
rumors, rumors, rumors- think about this and their perspective
Rome- order, masculine, cold-hard stuff
Egypt- passion, feminine, soft stuff
"Upon a tawny front" - Description of Cleopatra- she is dark
Mars &Venus- adultery
Mars is Antony- god of war
"Love and War"
Natural world is constantly at risk of dissolving
Act I scene 3
"Sir, you and I must part..."
poetry through love
identity- who am I? who are these people?
Act II scene 7
It is what it is
Montane- french philosopher and essayist
-no such thing as a fixed identity
Antony- identity being questioned
Act I scene 4
demasculization of Antony
he used to be one way, now he is a different way
whipped
Act II scene 5
he is two-faced
Act I scene 2
"no he, the queen"
A&C are not young
identity changes through the years
"infinite variety"- describing Cleopatra
The more you have of her, the more you want of her.
Bathos- climaxes and anticlimaxes
Plenty of fish in the sea
History
Everybody already knows the story
Act III scene 13
how are they going to be remembered
3/10/11
Revisiting King Lear
Book Worms
Shakespeare helps us to endure the unendurable
Antony & Cleopatra
Cleopatra always needs an audience
-she wants to be a beautiful corpse
Egypt and Rome are metaphorical for place of mind
Gypsy- from Egypt
A&C plan to be gods, heres what they do
1. say 2. see 3. do
Isis- goddesss of fertility
apotheosis- to make devine
Antony=Hercules
"The shirt of Nessus is upon me"
Antony's cloud speech
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