 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...  Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline - Page 152by William Shakespeare - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Stanley Vincent Longman - 1998 - 144 pages
...of his actor that he allows Cleopatra to express her fear that, if she is led back to Rome, she will see "some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness i' the posture of a whore" (5.2.216-17). That the boy dares remind the audience in this anguished moment that he too is a boy... | |
 | Ralph Berry - 1999 - 244 pages
.... 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...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 - 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 - 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, her... | |
 | Robert Nye - 1999 - 428 pages
...kills herself: because she cannot bear the prospect of being paraded in parody in Caesar's triumph / shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I' the posture of a whore. But Lucy was a whore, and I was a boy. I played Cleopatra as myself playing Lucy Negro for the pleasure... | |
 | Allan Bloom - 2000 - 172 pages
...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...Cleopatra boy my greatness I' the posture of a whore. (V.ii.2o6— 220) Caesar is indeed robbed and disappointed when Cleopatra escapes him. He puts the... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander, Stanley Wells - 2000 - 254 pages
...you: 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...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 one.... | |
 | Park Honan - 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 see Some squeaking 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 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'... | |
 | John Michael Archer - 2001 - 268 pages
...She warns Iras that "Thou, an Egyptian puppet shall be shown / In Rome as well as I," where The quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present...Cleopatra boy my greatness I' the posture of a whore. (5.2.207-8, 215-20) The parody of Alexandria's transgressive sexuality in Rome's theaters does not... | |
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