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Antony and Cleopatra Quotations
This document contains over 130 quotations from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, with quotations divided by character and annotated with themes, speakers and possible uses in an essay.
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These notes are the reason I got a distinction for my paper two.
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ANTONYPhilo: “… like plated Mars” (1/1/4) Mars = Roman god of war. A is strongly associated w/ Mars.
Philo: “The triple pillar of the world transformed / Into a strumpet’s fool” (1/1/12-13) Roman view is
that A is ruining the triumvirate. Derogatory, disrespectful to both A and C.
“There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned” (1/1/15) Their love is transcendent.
“Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch / Of the ranged empire fall. Here is my space” (1/1/33-34)
NB quote! A says he belongs in Egypt. Dissolution theme.
Cleo: “Antony / Will be himself” (1/1/42-43) imp. As play progresses – A is not himself anymore.
“Speak to me home, mince not the general tongue, / Name Cleopatra as she is called in Rome”
(1/2/95-96) Knows C has a bad reputation in Rome.
“These strong Egyptian fetters I must break / Or lose myself in dotage” (1/2/106-107) I need to break
free from C, otherwise I’ll get more and more stupid, never be a good soldier etc.
“I must from this enchanting queen break off” (1/2/118)
“my full heart / Remains in use with you” (1/3/41-42) To C.
“I go from hence / Thy soldier, servant, making peace or war / As thou affects” (1/3/68-70) I’ll do
whatever you want me to.
Cleo: “this Herculean Roman” (1/3/84)
Caesar: “… is not more manlike / Than Cleopatra, nor the queen of Ptolemy / More womanly than
he.” (1/4/5-7) C is manly, he is womanly: they are equals.
Caesar: “a man who is the abstract of all faults / That all men follow” (1/4/9-10)
Caesar: “lascivious wassails” (1/4/55) I.e. sensuous partying
Cleo: “The demi-atlas of this earth, the arm / And burgonet of men.” (1/5/23-24) A bears half the weight
of the world on his shoulders (Roman half). Arm = power, burgonet = helmet (safety)
, Cleo: “My man of men.” (1/5/71)
“The honour is sacred” (2/2/85) Typically Roman attitude.
“… when poisoned hours has bound me up / From mine own knowledge” (2/2/90-91) He is not
completely himself with C. Defending himself to Caesar.
Agrippa: “The best of men” (2/2/128) Even Agrippa, who is Caesar’s friend, not Ant.’s, speaks highly of Ant.
Enobarbus: “… pays his heart / For what his eyes eat only” (2/2/221-222) Gave his heart to C.
Soothsayer: “Thy demon… is / Noble, courageous, high, unmatchable / Where Caesar’s is not.”
(2/3/21-23)
Soothsayer: “Thou art sure to lose” (2/3/27) Against Ca.
“I will to Egypt” (2/3/39)
“And, though I make this marriage for my peace / I’th’East my pleasure lies.” (2/3/40-41) Marriage to
reconcile w/ Caesar, but I belong w/ Cleo. Public duty and private life.
Eno: “He will to his / Egyptian dish again” (2/6/118-119)
Eno: “He married but his occasion here” (2/6/122) He just married O bc it was politically expedient.
Lepidus to A: “Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of / your sun; so
is your crocodile” (2/7/21-22) serpent = positive (power, fertility, regeneration etc. but also poison).
Crocodile = symbol of A + Cl relationship. A’s feelings for Cl borne out of ‘mud’ of Egypt (fertility, health
etc)
“thy grand captain Antony” (3/1/9)
“Make me not offended / In your distrust” (3/1/31-32) To Ca, about Ca doubting A’s faithfulness to
Octavia. Don’t offend me by not trusting me.
“If I lose mine honour, / I lose myself” (3/4/22-23) NB: theme of honour + dissolution.
“He hath given his empire / Up to a whore” (3/6/66-67) Said by Ca.
“th’adulterous Antony”
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