A&C AO1: quotes (goofy)

cleo being a girlboss mama slay

'Speak not against it! / I will not stay behind.' [Cleopatra] 3.7.18-19

If it be love indeed, tell me how much (1:1)

"For a princess / Descended of so many royal kings." [Charmian]

'For her life in Rome would be eternal in our triumph.' 5.2 (Caesar abt Cleo)

Where art thou, Death? Come hither, come! Come, come, and take a queen. 5:2 

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me. (5:2) (dying as a queen, not a performer)

Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness i'th' posture of a whore 5:2

ant being a role model for male loser yearners

These strong Egyptian fetters I must break, Or lose myself in dotage.

you were my conqueror, and that my sword, made weak by my affection, would obey it on all cause.

"My heart was to thy rudder tied by the' strings" - Antony's love for C

ant being a sensitive mf

This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me:

My fleet hath yielded to their foe, …’they cast their caps up and carouse together like friends long lost (paranoia, despair)

O, my fortunes have corrupted honest men! (about Enobarbus' desertion)

Not Caesar's valour hath o'erthrown Antony, but Antony's hath triumphed on itself.

enobarbus speaking the truth as per preach king

He will to his Egyptian dish again: then shall the sighs of Octavia blow the fire up on Caesar; and, as I said before, that which is the strength of their amity shall prove the immediate author of their variance (2:6) (sarcastically predicts A's return to Cleo, knowing it will cause a rift with Caesar)

• (tone is mocking, but accurate - an insightful commentator)

‘Here comes the emperor’ (basically calling him a dictator) (abt Antony)

caesar having a stick up his ass

'Scarce Bearded Caesar'

'Go, charge my officers, make you ready, Our purposes require it. So to Egypt.'

It hath been taught us from the primal state, that he which is was wish'd until he were; and the ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, comes dear'd by being lack'd

ant experimenting w Caesar’s stick

‘The strong necessity of time commands’

‘Your honour calls you hence;’

ant being the world’s biggest simp

Have glowed like plated Mars, now bend, now turn

The office and devotion of their view

 

"The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool"

I' th' East my pleasure lies

"The nobleness of life" - Antony's view of love

I am so lated in the world, that I have lost my way forever. (After the defeat at Actium) (tragedy and fatalism)

I will o'ertake thee, Cleopatra, and weep for my pardon (b4 his death he envisions reuniting w Cleo in the afterlife, seeking redemption) (sacrifice for love)

ant kinda being an alpha male

roughest berry on the rudest hedge

thou didst eat strange flesh

was borne so like a soldier (said by Caesar)

Have glowed like plated Mars, now bend, now turn

The office and devotion of their view

‘Let Antony look over Caesar’s head’ 2.2 (visual representation of status)

The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack.  5.1. (about Ant's death)

cleo being The Baddie of the historic world

I must from this enchanting queen break off.

"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety:" 2:2 (Enobarbus) beyond ordinary women, charm + influence, mystery and unpredictability

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,’…’ so perfumed that the winds were love-sick with them (2:2) (Enobarbus) mythologises Cleo - irresistible, god-like, luxury, seductive

"My nightingale" - A to Cleo

“My enchantress”

“Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both” (witchcraft)

ant & cleo being in luv with each other kissy kissy muah muah

I am dying, Egypt, dying: only I here importune death awhile, until of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips (dying as a lover than as a warrior) (reinforces his devotion to love over honour)

"My heart was to thy rudder tied by the' strings" - Antony's love for C

"Sword made weak by my affection"

clash of cultures poo poo doo doo

1.2 ‘A Roman thought hath struck him.’

'Lest, in her greatness, by some mortal stroke she do defeat us. For her life in Rome would be eternal in our triumph.' 5.2

misogyny BOOOO

an eunuch and your maids / Manage this war.' [Enobarbus] 3.7.14

'gypsy's lust'

'he hath given up his empire for a whore' (Caesar about Cleopatra)

"Transform us not to women!" - Enobarbus - negative attitude

Is not more manlike Than Cleopatra, nor the Queen of Ptolemy more womanly than he (Caesar) (emasculating A against C)

‘Egyptian dish’ (Eno about Cleo)

‘do confess I have been laden with like frailties which before have often shamed our sex.’ (Cleo to Caesar) 5.2

ant’s homies dissing him

‘Nay, but this dotage of our general’s O’erflows the measure’ 1.1

‘Have glowed like plated Mars, now bend, now turn The office and devotion of their view’ 1.1

‘The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper and is become the bellows and the fan to cool a gipsy’s lust.’ 1.1

‘‘Tis the god Hercules whom Antony loved now leaves him’ 4.3 (lost respect of Gods, roman mythology and honour, foreshadows downfall)

‘The star is fallen.’ 4.14

cleo being a male manipulator

‘Where think’st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he?’

See where he is, who's with him, what he does: I did not send you. If you find him sad, Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report that I am sudden sick. (1:3)

O my lord, my lord, forgive my fearful sails! (3:11) (literal flight and emotional weakness)

‘Go tell him I have slain myself’

cleo being slightly delulu (can’t judge)

'That Herod's head / I'll have!' [Cleopatra] 3.3.4-5

'Dull of tongue ang dwarfish.' [Cleopatra] 3.3.16

'There's gold for thee. / Thou must not take my former sharpness ill.' [Cleopatra to Messenger] 3.3.33-34

'This creature's no such thing.' [Cleopatra about Octavia] 3.3.39

I have sixty sails, Caesar none better' [Cleopatra] 3.7.49

O my lord, my lord, forgive my fearful sails! (3:11) (literal flight and emotional weakness)

Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself. Say that the last I spoke was 'Antony' … And bring me how he takes my death 4.14

eno being the most dramatic mf in ancient rome

I am alone the villain of the earth, and feel I am so most 4:6

No, I will go seek some ditch wherein to die; the foul’st best fits my latter part of life.’ 4.6 (emotional turmoil)

O Antony, nobler than my revolt is infamous, forgive me in thine own particular; but let the world rank me in register a master-leaver and a fugitive 4:9 (acknowledges nobility, deep shame, accepts reputation as a traitor)

Throw my heart against the flint and hardness of my fault, which, being dried with grief, will break to powder, and finish all foul thoughts 4:9 (dies of guilt and heartbreak, succumbs to despair)

eno getting some thoughts that ant’s not all that

Mine honour and I begin to square. The loyalty well held to fools does make our faith mere folly 3:10

He will to his Egyptian dish again: then shall the sighs of Octavia blow the fire up on Caesar; and, as I said before, that which is the strength of their amity shall prove the immediate author of their variance (2:6)

• (sarcastically predicts A's return to Cleo, knowing it will cause a rift with Caesar) (tone is mocking, but accurate - an insightful commentator)

ant & cleo being the world’s biggest power couple

he shall be buried by her Antony: No grave upon the earth shall clip in it a pair so famous

"Eternity was in our lips and eyes" - love/romance/power

"The nobleness of life" - Antony's view of love

octavia poor girlie u didn’t deserve this

"By this (Octavia and Antony’s) great marriage" (everything will be solved)

"Let her live to join our kingdoms and our hearts"

‘I make this marriage for my peace, I’th’ East my pleasure lies.’

‘But you are come a market maid to Rome’

‘my heart parted betwixt two friends that does afflict each other!’

the worst breakup of all time (ant’s crashout)

This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me:’

'Triple-turned whore!'

'Betrayed I am. O this false soul of Egypt!' 

'Like a right gipsy hath at fast and loose beguiled me to the very heart of loss.'

 'Of all thy sex; most monster-like be shown' (to Cleo)

'The witch shall die.' 'She dies for't'

'O thy vile lady! She has robbed me of my sword' 4.14

Cleo being alpha grrr

Antony calls her ‘Most gracious majesty’ and ‘My noblest queen’ (superlatives, status, respect)

‘Nay, I’ll help too’

• (helping Antony putting on his armour - refusal + insistence that he accepts, AO5: ‘competent military tactician’)

• ‘the armourer of my heart’ A to C

‘Here’s sport indeed!’ (lifting dying Antony onto monument)