 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 502 pages
...untie : poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch. O, could'st thou speak, That I might hear thce call great Caesar ass Unpolicied ! Char. O eastern...as gentle. — • O Antony ! — Nay, I will take thce too. — \_Applying another asp to her arm. What should I stay — [Falls on a bed, and dies.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 588 pages
...despatch. 0, couldst thou speak, That I might hear thee call great Caesar, Ass Unpolieied ! CHAB. 0, eastern star ! CLEO. Peace, peace ! Dost thou not...my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep ? CHAK. 0, break ! 0, break ! CLEO. As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle, — 0, Antony! —... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...language becomes ritualistic while losing nothing of its sensuality: Charmian. O Eastern star! Cleopatra. Peace, peace! Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep? Charmian. O, break! O, break! Cleopatra. As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle— O Antony! .... | |
 | Kenneth Burke - History - 1984 - 450 pages
...Scenc II of Antony and Cleopatra, where Cleopatra exposes her flesh to the sting of the asp, and says: Peace, peace! Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep? The "whimsical Barrie" contrived to expand a "perspective by incongruity" into a whole play. He wrote... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak, That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass Unpolicied. ... Peace, peace! Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep? ... As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle — O, Antony! — Nay, I will take thee too. (Applies... | |
 | Carol Thomas Neely - Drama - 1985 - 300 pages
..."Dissolve, thick cloud . . . O, break! O, break!" to the ecstatic release of Cleopatra's mid-sentence death: "As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle — / O Antony! Nay, I will take thee too: What, should I stay — ." The asp is lover and child, phallic and gynocentric, death-bringing and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 166 pages
...Shakespeare, Cleopatra first applies an asp to her breast. And, in a breathtaking conceit, she says: Peace, peace! Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep? In this startling juxtaposition which is both poignant and perverse, the image of a woman being poisoned... | |
 | Normand Berlin - American drama - 1994 - 286 pages
...Cleopatra's last scene, in which Shakespeare brilliantly converts the poisonous asp to a nursing baby: "Peace, peace! / Dost thou not see my baby at my breast / That sucks the nurse asleep?" (5.2.308-10). Here the usual symbol of evil and pure sexuality is transformed to an instrument of peace... | |
 | Jaroslav Stetkevych - Education - 1993 - 352 pages
...eastern star!" and the dying Cleopatra's reply (Shakespeare, Antonv and Cleopatra, act 5, scene 2): Peace, peace! Dost thou not see my baby at my breast. That sucks the nurse asleep? 95. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (New York: Bantam Books, 1983), p. 266. 96. Miguel de Unamuno, Andanzas... | |
 | Harley Granville-Barker - Shakespeare, William - 1993 - 164 pages
...speak, That I might hear thec call great Czsar ass Unpolicied! CHARMIAN. O eastern star! CLEOPATRA. Peace, peace! Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep? CHARMIAN. O break! O break! CLEOPATRA. As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle! O, Antony! —... | |
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With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak, That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass Unpolicied ! CHAR. O eastern star ! CLEO. Peace, peace ! Dost thou not see... 
