 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 224 pàgines
...lover's bed. (rv, xiv, 99-101) Cleopatra uses the same language in her reflexion on Antony's death: If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke...is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts, and is desired. (v, ii, 297-9) Whiter's commentary continues: But what will the reader say, when he reads the following... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 pàgines
...warmth of my lips. Farewell, kind Charmian; Iras, long farewell. Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall? If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke...of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts, and is desir'd. Dost thou lie still ? If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world It is not worth leave-taking.... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 208 pàgines
...achievement. I will be A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed. (rv, xiv, 99-101) The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts, and is desired. (v, ii, 298-9) The impact of these images is physical, vital. For to Antony and Cleopatra death was... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 216 pàgines
...celerity in dying (I, ii, 152-4) — whilst she herself testifies at the end to the same phenomenon: The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desir'd. (v, ii, 297-8) We recall that among the other personae of Isis (according to Apuleius) is... | |
 | Gisèle Venet - 2002 - 350 pàgines
...marble-constant». 56. V, II, 229 : «we'll dispatch indeed» ; 231 : «To play till doomsday» ; 292-293 : «The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch / Which hurts and is desir'd»; et 284-285 : «Husband, I corne. / Now to that name my courage prove my title». dans un... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall - 2003 - 264 pàgines
...conflates poison with pain-alleviating, and even seductive, pleasures: Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall? If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke...of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts, and is desir'd. (5.2.292-95) Cleopatra's attribution of erotic pleasure to death draws on the play's frequent... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2004 - 224 pàgines
...Charmian, Iras, long farewell. 285 [Kisses them. \RAsfalls and dies Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall? If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke...still? If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world 290 It is not worth leave-taking. CHARMIAN Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain, that I may say The gods... | |
 | Kenneth S. Rothwell - 2004 - 402 pàgines
...more / The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip" (5.2.281); and death itself becomes erotic: "the stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, / Which hurts, and is desir'd" (1.2.295). When Octavius enters and says that "she looks like sleep, / As she would catch... | |
 | John Pemble - 2005 - 271 pàgines
...warmth of my lips. Farewell, kind Charmian, Iras a long farewell. Have I the aspic on my lips? Dost fall? If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke...is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts, and is desired. Gide's version (1938) is: Cueillez la derniere chaleur de mes levres. Adieu, mes douces, Charmian,... | |
 | Ernest Schanzer - 2005 - 216 pàgines
...But I will be A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed. (^s-gg-'oi) Cleopatra: If thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desir'd. (5.2.292-4) Each sees the death of the other as the extinction of the source of all light:... | |
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I am fire, and air; my other elements I give to baser life. So, have you done? Come then, and take the last warmth of my lips. Farewell kind Charmian, Iras, long farewell. 
