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“No full-length Shakespearian tragedy reaches the intensity of these three...
The Winter’s Tale Act Three, Part Two By Dennis Abrams ———————- First off, some highlights from Mark Van Doren, without the most often used quotes from the play: “’The Winter’s Tale’ tells of...
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“Exit, pursued by a bear.”
The Winter’s Tale Act Three, Part One By Dennis Abrams —————————- Act Three: Leontes formally accuses Hermione of adultery and plotting to kill him, but she remains firm in her innocence and declares...
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“For mine’s beyond beyond…”
Cymbeline Act Three, Part One By Dennis Abrams ——————————– Act Three: In Britain, Cymbeline has refused to pay the annual tribute to Rome, to which the Roman ambassador Lucius responds by declaring...
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“Coriolanus did not love the people. But this does not mean that Coriolanus...
Coriolanus Act Five, Part Two By Dennis Abrams ———————————- From Jan Kott: “But Shakespeare’s world is crowded, and there are no empty spaces in it. There are just patricians, plebeians, and enemies...
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He holds her by the hand, silent.
Coriolanus Act Five, Part One By Dennis Abrams ———————————————————– Act Five: Meanwhile, Rome is desperate to win back its savior, so first Cominius, then Menenius, are sent out to persuade...
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“…dramatically I just love his uncompromising attitude, his imagery of ‘Bring...
Coriolanus Act Four, Part Two By Dennis Abrams —————————————————————————- For your Thanksgiving week enjoyment, an interview with Ralph Fiennes from the book Shakespeare on Stage, talking about his...
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“…we have learned by now to ask Marxian questions about deep causes – not,...
Coriolanus Act Three, Part Two By Dennis Abrams —————————- Let’s talk briefly about homoeroticism in Coriolanus. It seems clear, I think that the inquires about each other by Martius and Aufidius and...
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“I banish you…There is a world elsewhere.”
Coriolanus Act Three, Part One By Dennis Abrams —————————————————– Act Three: Coriolanus is about to be invested when the tribunes gleefully and triumphantly inform him that his popularity has...
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“Indeed, this is probably the most difficult play in the canon, and it...
Coriolanus Act One, Part Two By Dennis Abrams ————————————————————— From Garber: “Coriolanus’s powerful mother, Volumnia, clearly dominates her dutiful son, who is free and independent on the...
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“If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there’s all the love they bear us.”
Coriolanus Act One, Part One By Dennis Abrams ————————————— MAJOR CHARACTERS Caius Martius, later known as Coriolanus, a Roman patrician Menenius Agrippa, another patrician Titus Lartius and Cominius,...
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“’Coriolanus’, more even than ‘Julius Caesar’ and ‘Henry V,’ is Shakespeare’s...
Coriolanus An Introduction By Dennis Abrams ——————————— Shakespeare’s final tragedy, Coriolanus is said to be his purest expression of classical tragic form, whereby a hero meets a sudden (and brutal)...
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“Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have/Immortal longings in me…”
Antony and Cleopatra Act Five, Part Two By Dennis Abrams ————————————– From Tony Tanner: “Cleopatra is, of course, above all a great actress. She can play with Antony to beguile him; she can play at...
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“Think you there was, or might be, such a man/As this I dreamt of?”
Antony and Cleopatra Act Five, Part One By Dennis Abrams ———————————– Act Five: When Antony dies, Cleopatra sees death as her only option, but she is prevented from stabbing herself by Caesar’s...
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“…young boys and girls/Are level now with men; the odds is gone,/And there is...
Antony and Cleopatra Act Four, Part Two By Dennis Abrams ——————————————– From Tony Tanner: “As well as being a history play, Antony and Cleopatra contains within it the traces of the outlines of a...
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“Since my lord/Is Antony again, I shall be Cleopatra.”
Antony and Cleopatra Act Three, Part One By Dennis Abrams ———————————- Act Three: Rome’s campaign against the Parthians has been a success, but the calm is shattered when Antony, on the way to Athens...
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“Age cannot with her, nor custom stale./Her infinite variety.”
Antony and Cleopatra Act Two, Part One By Dennis Abrams ————————————— Act Two: At Pompey’s camp, the news that Caesar has assembled an army is not exactly well-received. Antony has returned....
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“Take, but good note, and you shall see in him/The Triple pillar of the world...
Antony and Cleopatra Act One, Part Two By Dennis Abrams ————————– A couple of observations: 1. G. Wilson Knight called Antony and Cleopatra “probably the subtlest and great play in Shakespeare,”...
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Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch/Of the ranged empire fall. Here is...
Antony and Cleopatra Act One, Part One By Dennis Abrams ————————————- MAJOR CHARACTERS Mark Antony, a triumvir (one of three co-rulers) of Rome Octavius Caesar, triumvir Lepidus, triumvir Cleopatra,...
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“If one were asked to select the play of Shakespeare’s that best represents...
Antony and Cleopatra An Introduction By Dennis Abrams ————————————- Dramatically adventurous, richly characterized, linguistically dazzling, Antony and Cleopatra is one of the great triumphs of...
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“The oldest hath borne most; we that are young/Shall never see so much, nor...
King Lear Act Five, Part Four By Dennis Abrams ———————– To continue with Mark Van Doren: “As the third act opens we listen to a gentleman telling Kent that Lear has made the plunge: he has disappeared...
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