...Mary Olive Thomas Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 The Opening Scenes of Antony and Cleopatra Mary Olive Thomas Increased understanding of art which delights by appealing to the taste for variety in unity, for a labyrinth of design, 1 as Dry­ den s Neander said in referring...

... response to the dramatic poem. SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY J. A. BRYANT, JR. The Pillar of the World. By Julian Markels. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 1968. Pp. 191. $6.00. The Pillar of the World deals with the position of Antony and Cleopatra in the development of Shakespeare s insight...

... of the World. By Julian Markels. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 1968. Pp. 191. $6.00. The Pillar of the World deals with the position of Antony and Cleopatra in the development of Shakespeare s insight into the ultimate meaning of the moral life. It is Professor Markels notion...

... passionate energy. Bacchus, skilled in the conduct of war, and after war in giving peace its pleasures, seems to have been his pattern among the gods. Shakespeare caused sorrowing Cleopatra to declaim in praise of her dead Antony: His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear d arm Crested the world! Plutarch...

... of individual plays and specific passages as almost to spoil them. Two examples must suffice. Since the time span for the reign of evil forces in the book of Revelation is forty-two months and there are forty-two scenes in Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare may have thought to give the total tragedy of Antony...

... of Revelation is forty-two months and there are forty-two scenes in Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare may have thought to give the total tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra a structure in accord with the number symbolism associated with a period of evil glory (pp. 180-81). The book is full of passages like...

... in with the more advanced criticism of European politics, past and present! Wm. K. Boyd. The Life and Times of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. By Arthur Weigall. New and revised edition. New York: G. P. Putnam s Sons, 1924. x + 445 pp. The Life and Death of Cleopatra. By Claude Ferval. Translated by M. E. Poindexter...

... to be buried alive of others who have been immured, both innocent (Danae and Cleopatra) and guilty (Lycurgus). Danae was imprisoned, though inno­ cent of any crime, because her unborn child was potentially dangerous to her father, while in the story of the blinding of Phineus s sons by their step­ mother...

... of The Love Play of Antony and Cleopatra and other Shakespeare studies, is associate professor of English at Wayne State University. 1 References to entries in Eric Partridge s Shakespeare s Bawdy (New York, 1960) are designated by asterisks in the text. 2 See discussion in Chap. 5 of Philip Traci, The Love...

.... He then returns to Antony and Cleopatra and shows how that play elabo­ rates and confirms the insight gained in the earlier plays. He adds a chapter on the style of the play, and concludes with two notes, one on The Tempest, the other on the dating of the plays. This is a very well written...

..., a providential view of life absorbs the existence of or potential for tragedy. Macbeth, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra he views as problematical tragedies, with each reflecting romance elements which will become predomi­ nant in the final plays. Macbeth, for example, even as the protagonist moves through...

... them own an ear open to the soundings of words; let them also own feelings not wholly dedicated to immediate suppres­ sion in favor of preparing for law or medical school exams. What then do they need, to read with some success the following lines from Shakespeare s Antony and Cleopatra in which...

... Caesar, Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra. 6. There are twenty-one prayers in the Quarto, to which the Folio adds one (Ill.vi.5); there are twenty prayers in the Folio, to which the Quarto adds two (HI.vii.107; V.i.46). There are twenty-two prayers in the standard conflated text. Petitionary Prayer...

..., and encyclopedic compilations. Although fiction was not as commonly sold in fascicules as one might expect, a good deal did appear serially; Don Quixote, The Arabian Nights Book Reviews 523 Entertainments, Gulliver s Travels (one month after its first publication), La Calprenede s Cleopatra, the spurious Pamela...

... to Scott Fitz­ gerald s self-indulgence, Basil and Cleopatra. The unfamiliar but excellent Outside the Cabinet Maker s we meet along with a con­ trived horror like Family in the Wind. From the period when Fitz­ gerald was struggling to gain a precarious hold upon his badly dissipated energies we can...

... Calprenede s Cleopatra, the spurious Pamela in High Lije, Mrs. Au- bin s Charlotta du Pont, several of Defoe s romances, and Telemaque were among the works thus issued. Samuel Johnson wrote the Proposals for at least two numbers books, and the still honorable Harleian Miscellany was first offered in shilling...

.... Of these, the volume treats only three in the concluding two chapters, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus. As Knights admits, the pattern he sees in the development of Shakespeare s thought is a highly subjective matter. The themes he chooses are not the only themes in the plays, but they are admittedly...

... two chapters, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus. As Knights admits, the pattern he sees in the development of Shakespeare s thought is a highly subjective matter. The themes he chooses are not the only themes in the plays, but they are admittedly significant, although I believe he places...

... is no longer blind to the aesthetic merits of Jugendstil, whose arabesques and other undulating lines did help, as Gabriele Muenter, Kandinsky s friend, commented, to destroy the old naturalism. Barlach s small pieces, among them a bowl with a triton and a Cleopatra, demonstrates his inventiveness. About...

... and Cleopatra is the surface effect of an underlying generic antithesis: that of the Renaissance argument over Attic versus Asiatic styles. The chapter is one of the best studies I know of this difficult play, although it could be strengthened by demonstrating how the stylistic dialogue functions...