 | Sidney Homan - 1981 - 246 páginas
...seen in A Midsummer Night's Dream, sleep and the dreams of sleep. Even Octavius observes that in death she "looks like sleep, / As she would catch another Antony / In her strong toil of grace" (5.2.349-51). Looking down at the supposedly dead body of Juliet and not knowing that she has been... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - 2004 - 264 páginas
...the Aeneid, especially the description of Dido (IV.68— 73). from him words of wonder and praise: "she looks like sleep, / As she would catch another Antony / In her strong toil of grace" (346-8). The phrase "toil of grace" evocatively recalls Cleopatra's reference to her lover uncaught... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 1988 - 196 páginas
...at least so far as our knowledge of such things goes — Caesar looks down on her and comments that: she looks like sleep, As she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace. (V.ii. 344-46) The old dispensation, as the theologians call it, has rolled by, carrying its symbols... | |
 | Dieter Mehl - 1986 - 286 páginas
...satisfaction, and Caesar's description of her dead body also refers to her chief role as temptress and snare: she looks like sleep, As she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace. (v.2..344-6) The play ends neither with a moral quintessence nor with an apotheosis of unbounded love... | |
 | John Drakakis, Terence Hawkes - 1985 - 324 páginas
...resembles life, as Caesar himself seems for a moment to glimpse the possibility of taking Antony's place: she looks like sleep, As she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace. (V ii. 345-7) It is not, in other words. Cleopatra's presence which seduces in these instances, nor... | |
 | Theodora A. Jankowski - 1992 - 262 páginas
...last, She levell'd at our purposes, and being royal Took her own way: (5.2.333-35) yet also a lover but she looks like sleep, As she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace. (5.2.344-46) Cleopatra may be defeated, but a paradoxical sense of triumph surrounds her at her end... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1993 - 166 páginas
...tremblingly she stood, And on the sudden dropped. CAESAR O noble weakness! 340 If they had swallowed poison, 'twould appear By external swelling: but she...catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace. 142 DOLABELL. Here, on her breast, There is a vent of blood, and something blown. 143 The like is on... | |
 | Richard Todd, Douglas C. Wilson - 1992 - 266 páginas
...moment from Antony and Cleopatra when Octavius Caesar gazes down at the dead Cleopatra and observes that She looks like sleep, As she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace. After quoting once more the final line — "In her strong toil of grace" — Richards asked "Where... | |
 | Carol Thomas Neely - 1985 - 300 páginas
...our purposes, and being royal, / Took her own way" (V. 0.33436) — but also her seductiveness — "She looks like sleep, / As she would catch another Antony / In her strong toil of grace" (345-47). He can do so because he is safe now — she has not caught him. But neither does he catch... | |
 | Harley Granville-Barker - 1993 - 164 páginas
...delayed while they stand gazing — tough soldiers that they are — at a queen so strangely throned: she looks like sleep, As she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace. The Staging THE action makes no extraordinary calls upon an Elizabethan stage as we now think we know... | |
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Charmian lived but now ; she stood and spake : I found her trimming up the diadem On her dead mistress ; tremblingly she stood, And on the sudden dropp'd. 
