 tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets ; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune : the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels : Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall...  Dramatic Works of John Ford ... - Page xlby John Ford - 1827Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Berry - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...at us, like strumpets, and scald rhymers Ballad us out o'tune. The quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels; Antony...shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I'th'posture of a whore. (5.2.207-21) A once-great star cannot play in vaudeville. It is, I think,... | |
 | Viviana Comensoli, Anne Russell - English drama - 1999 - 284 pages
...most specifically in Cleopatra's metadramatic reference to the "quick comedians" who will stage her "Alexandrian revels": Antony Shall be brought drunken...shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I' th' posture of a whore. (5.7.118-21) At first glance, Cleopatra's allusion to the boy actor simply... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 202 pages
...Rome? Saucy lictors Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune. . . . Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some' squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I' th' posture of a whore. (V.2.55-57, 215-17, 219-22) Strumpets and whores and drunks - Cleopatra,... | |
 | Allan Bloom - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 172 pages
...at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune. The quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels: Antony...shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I' the posture of a whore. (V.ii.2o6— 220) Caesar is indeed robbed and disappointed when Cleopatra... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2000 - 254 pages
...at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune; the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels; Antony...shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I' th' posture of a whore. (5.2.213-20) The other side of the balance sheet, however, is an ironic... | |
 | Park Honan - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 522 pages
...boy when Egypt's Queen refers to comedians who, one day, may 'stage us', and when her noble, besotted Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall...Cleopatra boy my greatness I'th' posture of a whore. (v. ii. 215-17) Her political acumen saves her from any such fate: in death she outwits Octavius. The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Generals - 2000 - 404 pages
...Rome: The quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels — Anthony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness Pth'posture of a whore. 5.2.216-21 The daring metatheatrical flourish of her 'squeaking Cleopatra'... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...like strumpets, and scald rhymers / Ballad us out o' tune. The quick comedians / Extemporally will stage us, and present / Our Alexandrian revels: Antony...shall see / Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness / I' the posture ofa whore. [V.ii. 206-20] su obra de teatro. Nadie en Shakespeare hace una escena... | |
 | John Michael Archer - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 268 pages
...Egyptian puppet shall be shown / In Rome as well as I," where The quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels: Antony...shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I' the posture of a whore. (5.2.207-8, 215-20) The parody of Alexandria's transgressive sexuality in... | |
 | Kenneth Gross - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 304 pages
...bringing this remarkable text to my attention. 40. In a similar vein, the captured queen of Egypt laments, "Antony / Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see / Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness / I' th' posture of a whore" (Antony and Cleopatra, 5.2.218—21). 41. Alciati, emblem CLIIII, in Emblemata,... | |
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