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Page xiii
... scene of the play we are introduced to Alcibiades , the most brilliant personage among the public men of that time , the Cæsar of Athens , without moral principle , but equally distinguished in culture and in action , and immortalised ...
... scene of the play we are introduced to Alcibiades , the most brilliant personage among the public men of that time , the Cæsar of Athens , without moral principle , but equally distinguished in culture and in action , and immortalised ...
Page xvi
... and such - like trifles . " Then follows a scene between Alcibiades and the Senate which is not germane to the matter , but looks as if it had been taken from another piece . It is certainly not in [ xvi ] TIMON OF ATHENS.
... and such - like trifles . " Then follows a scene between Alcibiades and the Senate which is not germane to the matter , but looks as if it had been taken from another piece . It is certainly not in [ xvi ] TIMON OF ATHENS.
Page xvii
... scene there is what some have taken for a refer- ence to an older play of " Timon " by an unknown author , written about 1600. In the older play , an abominably bad one , the feast is composed of stones painted like artichokes . In our ...
... scene there is what some have taken for a refer- ence to an older play of " Timon " by an unknown author , written about 1600. In the older play , an abominably bad one , the feast is composed of stones painted like artichokes . In our ...
Page xix
... scene is like the coarseness of Swift , not prurient and not ribald , but delighting in whatever degrades mankind . Such misanthropy as Swift's , at its worst , and Timon's , in this scene , is unfit for literature or for the stage . It ...
... scene is like the coarseness of Swift , not prurient and not ribald , but delighting in whatever degrades mankind . Such misanthropy as Swift's , at its worst , and Timon's , in this scene , is unfit for literature or for the stage . It ...
Page xxi
... scene between Timon and Apemantus , to which I shall return . There is not much trace of Shakespeare in the fifth act of " Timon , " which drags its slow length across the stage . The report of Timon's new treasure , spread through ...
... scene between Timon and Apemantus , to which I shall return . There is not much trace of Shakespeare in the fifth act of " Timon , " which drags its slow length across the stage . The report of Timon's new treasure , spread through ...
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Agrippa ALCIB Alcibiades Alexas Antony and Cleopatra Antony's APEM Apemantus Athenian bear breath CHAR Charmian CLEO dead death Dolabella dost dramatic drink Egypt Enobarbus Enter ANTONY Enter CLEOPATRA Eros Euphronius Exeunt Exit eyes farewell fear feast FLAV Flavius Folio reading follow fool fortune friends Fulvia give gods gold GUARD hand hath hear heart honest honour infra IRAS jewel Julius Cæsar kiss knave Lepidus live look Lord Timon Lucullus madam Marcus Crassus Mark Antony master means Menas MESS Messenger mistress nature ne'er never noble Octavia PAIN Parthia play Plutarch POET Pompey pray prithee Proculeius queen Rome Rowe's SCENE Senators SERV servant Sextus Pompeius Shakespeare SOLD soldier speak spirit supra sword tell thee Theobald's There's thine thou art thou hast thyself Timon of Athens tragedy Ventidius word wouldst