 | Theodore Vrettos - 2010 - 290 pages
...of Cleopatra captured the imagination of many creative minds, particularly Shakespeare: CLEOPATRA: Give me my robe, put on my crown. I have Immortal...more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip. Yea, Yea, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 636 pages
...what is implied as well as what is said, there is nowhere in him a more lofty line than Cleopatra's ' Give me my robe, put on my crown ; I have immortal ' longings in me ! ' Antony at the last is a ruin, and like a ruin — dark, weird, grim, lonely, haggard — he seems... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...is it sin To rush into the secret house of death, Ere death dare come to us? Cleopatra — A&C IV.xv Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal...him mock The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men To excuse their after wrath: husband, I come: Now to that name my courage prove my title! I am fire... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 228 pages
...Enter Iras with a robe, crown, and other jewels Cleopatra Give me my robe. Put on my crown. I have 280 Immortal longings in me. Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip. The women dress her Yare, yare, good Iras! Quick! Methinks I hear Antony call. I see him rouse himself... | |
 | Agnes Heller - 2002 - 390 pages
...she dies as a Roman, as Portia died, as a wife of Antony. Yet, she also dies as a queen. Cleopatra: "Give me my robe. Put on my crown. I have / Immortal longings in me. . . . Methinks I hear / Antony call. I see him rouse himself /To praise my noble act . . . Husband,... | |
 | Claire McEachern - 2002 - 310 pages
...many things, some less, some more. Your voices! Indeed, I would be consul. (2.3.115-17) or Cleopatra's Give me my robe. Put on my crown. I have Immortal longings in me. (5.2.274-5) Repeatedly local meanings are thus enhanced by the poet's manipulation of sound. The rhythmic... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 216 pages
...ritual marriage between herself and the dead Antony which is going to be consummated in the afterworld: Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me . . . Husband I come: Now to that name, my courage prove my title! I am fire, and air; my other elements... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 pages
...and so Charmian must 'bring our crown and all' (v. ii. 232). Here life is crowned with immortality: Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. (v. ii. 282} Therefore in death Charmian knows that that crown must be inviolate, meticulously exact... | |
 | Robert Smallwood - 2003 - 252 pages
...end of the play I was completely naked for the briefest of moments before the golden robe was put on: Give me my robe; put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. (vu 279-80) This sharpest of contrasts was important to me: Cleopatra as a woman, mortal in every sense,... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - 2003 - 332 pages
...of "the style that is the very pinnacle of the pyramid of art"? The scene of the death of Cleopatra: Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. (5.2.279-80) In four dense pages Murry analyzes this scene between the queen and her attendant Charmian,... | |
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Give me my robe, put on my crown ; I have Immortal longings in me : Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip : — Yare, yare ', good Iras ; quick. — Methinks, I hear Antony call ; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act... 
