 | Ralph Berry - Drama - 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 - 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,... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander, Stanley Wells - Drama - 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... | |
 | Allan Bloom - Literary Criticism - 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...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... | |
 | 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 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 - 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
...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' 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
...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...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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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... 
