...Cleopatra: ...those goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front.... (I, i, ll. 2-6) Whereas Shakespeare sometimes heaps detail upon detail, his sentences are often elliptical,...

...Cleopatra: ...those goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front.... (I, i, ll. 2-6) Whereas Shakespeare sometimes heaps detail upon detail, his sentences are often elliptical,...

...Cleopatra: ...those goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front.... (I, i, ll. 2-6) Whereas Shakespeare sometimes heaps detail upon detail, his sentences are often elliptical,...

...Cleopatra: ...those goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front.... (I, i, 11. 2-6) Whereas Shakespeare sometimes heaps detail upon detail, his sentences are often elliptical,...

...Cleopatra: ...those goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front.... (I, i, 11. 2-6) Whereas Shakespeare sometimes heaps detail upon detail, his sentences are often elliptical,...

...Cleopatra: . . . those goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front .... Act I, scene i: lines 2-6 Whereas Shakespeare sometimes heaps detail upon detail, his sentences...

...only for his black Aida is uncannily there in Shakespeare's opening lines - a 'plated Mars' whose eyes 'now bend, now turn / The office and devotion of their view / Upon a tawny front.' And in Verdi's opening 'Celeste Aida' we hear Shakespeare's 'scuffles of great fights' and 'the buckles...

..."dotage": His captain's heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper And is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gypsy's lust. (1.1.6-10) Enobarbus is more moderate but he doesn't at all understand that Antony is...

...changes for the worse, as Cleopatra speaks freely of both love and politics. Antony's "goodly eyes" may "bend, now turn / The office and devotion of their view / Upon a tawny front" (1.1.2, 4-5),7 but as we look and listen closely, we find that this "front" is only one aspect of her...

...dissolution : Nay but this dotage of our General's O'erflaws the measure. Those his goodly eyes [...] now bend, now turn The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front. His captain's heart [...] hath burst The buckles on his breast...(Ill-8)16 Ces images de torsion (linea serpentinatd),...