 | Northrop Frye - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 196 pages
...she proposes to go fishing, as she used to do with Antony: my bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say "Ah ha! y'are caught." (II.v. 12-15) To Antony's exhausted murmur, "Give me some wine, and let... | |
 | Allen Guttmann - Social Science - 1991 - 388 pages
...My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-fmn'd fishes, my bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, "Ah, ha! You're caught." This tells us nothing about the historical Cleopatra, but it does suggest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 166 pages
...My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes; my bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws, and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say 'Ah ha! You're caught.' Charmian then recalls the time that Cleopatra had fooled Antony by arranging... | |
 | Carol Thomas Neely - Drama - 1985 - 300 pages
...144-45, has a fine discussion of the crucial importance of "becoming" in the play. 22 Cf. Cleopatra's "and as I draw them up, / I'll think them every one an Antony" (II. v. 13- 14) with her "Help, friends below, let's draw him hither" (IV.xv.13); "But come, come,... | |
 | Laura Levine - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 200 pages
...music playing far off, I will betray / Tawny-finn'd fishes; my bended hook shall pierce / Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, / I'll think them every one an Antony, / And say 'Ah, ha! y'are caught'" [II.v. 10-1 5]). The fantasy apparently suggests to her an actual memory... | |
 | Gordon Williams - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 298 pages
...'fervency', as well as the preceding speech where Cleopatra determines to betray Tawny-finned fishes. . . . and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony. Cleopatra was first seen by Antony as a goddess on the water, Plutarch detailing the care which she... | |
 | Susan Youens - Music - 2000 - 219 pages
...My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finn'd fishes: my bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws: and as I draw them up I'll think them every one an Antony, And say. Л/i /ш.1 you're caught. CHARMIAN: Twas merry when You wager'd on your angling: when your diver... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Generals - 2000 - 404 pages
...this strange echo of Cleopatra's fishing-sport In 2.5.11-15: 'I will betray | Tawny-fine fishes . . . and as I draw them up, \ I'll think them every one an Anthony, I And say "Ah, ha! you're caught." ' 18-19 «one . . . Anthony As Arden notes, evidently modelled... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 316 pages
...My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws, and as I draw them up I'll think them every one an Antony, And say 'Ah ha, you're caught!' (2.5.1o-15) The sequences of separation and reunion are played out in a... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...obedient. She says, when she thinks of going fishing in the Nile, My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws: and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, "Ah, ha! y'are caught!" She says also, when reminded of how she once fooled Antony while they... | |
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I'll none now: Give me mine angle; we'll to the river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finn'd fishes; my bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws, and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say 'Ah, ha! you're... 
