Enter a Messenger MESSENGER News, my good Lord, from Rome. ANTONY Grates me—the sum. CLEOPATRA Nay, hear them, Antony. Fulvia perchance is angry; or who knows If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent His powerful mandate to you: ‘Do this, or this, Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that. Perform’t, or else we damn thee.’ […]
Continue ReadingHow do you love me? let me count the ways (1.1.14-17) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
CLEOPATRA [to Antony] If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned. CLEOPATRA I’ll set a bourn how far to be beloved. ANTONY Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth. (1.1.14-17) Despite the train, the women, the eunuchs, and the two censorious […]
Continue ReadingThe strumpet and the fool: just look at them! (1.1.10-13) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
PHILO Look where they come. Take but good note, and you shall see in him The triple pillar of the world transformed Into a strumpet’s fool. Behold and see. (1.1.10-13) Look, note, see, behold: this is spectacle, and of a complex kind, because Philo wants to disparage what’s going on (although actually he’s fascinated, he […]
Continue ReadingEnter Antony and Cleopatra: fans, eunuchs & fabulousness (1.1.6-10SD) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
PHILO His captain’s heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper, And is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy’s lust. Flourish. Enter Antony, Cleopatra, her ladies [Charmian and Iras], the train, with eunuchs fanning her. (1.1.6-10SD) Philo continues his dismayed? […]
Continue ReadingAntony’s lost it, making love, not war (1.1.1-6) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
Enter Demetrius and Philo PHILO Nay, but this dotage of our General’s O’erflows the measure. Those his goodly eyes, That o’er the files and musters of the war Have glowed like plated Mars, now bend, now turn The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front. (1.1.1-6) Starting like this – with […]
Continue Reading#BurningBarge a new #SlowShakespeare daily blog coming very soon
My new #SlowShakespeare reading of Antony and Cleopatra will begin on Monday 24 October. Daily posts go up around 9am UK time, with a more-or-less simultaneous tweet; a daily production image is (usually) added on Twitter later in the day. Comments on the blog and on Twitter are very welcome! I’m really looking forward to […]
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