Pictorial Shakespeare, 1880-1890 - eTheses Repository - University ...

ulars or Antony's jortjonality. The me^ciiror's . c count of
Menecrates cui-J Sflenas, famous pirates, and. the picture; que
detail of "lit ony *s if vinj urunk "the otale of horses and the
gilded puddle" .verc u^it-oec, although both ha-1 been retained
in Cnlvert'a version in I. 66"°.
This scene, aonarently plrycd before a cloth, wac
followed by I.I in its entirety, 1.2 (lacking 1-°G anti twentysix
other lines) and 1.3. The conversation between Chnnian,
an.!.' n, Alexas, Iras and the Soothsayer (1,2.1-73) was removed
and tho moot im-ortant of the oUior onisaions wets Antony's
fin; 1 speech in 1.3. Thus Cleopatra, v/ho had arrived by barce
at tiic befinninf; of the composite scene, was . -iven the curtain
line, and trie concision became a ";dcture"s
your nv;orrl
.-it laurel victory, and smooth r^uccecs
Be strc'.vetL before your fc-ctl
(I*3»Q:J-101)
Crlvert, ho played Antony in his ov.n revivt-1, aot only
retained ntony's lines, "Let ue -o. Come...", bot added fouranu-a-half
nevi oiii'S, froiJ IV. i~-.t
iy ni^htirirale, t'L.y Jiraic . Truvi 'eters,
itl": br°aen c!in, bl st you the city's o. r.
r.iin ;le ;-;it'- v our rattling tambourines
heaven and earth • y ctrike their i-ounclc to; .ether,
udin" our ;nn>ro. ch.
(IV.8.3:3-eat-)
rs L; 11 try Ice.ot tiie ; tro:a,ij effects to licroelf «
rchor noted tlirt "I am icl. and aullon (13) w. s rj-ooken
"to L-^rcelf . ..in "11 .^oriousnesc", and thrt "Jo Antony loves"
and "3o i'ulvia" to.Lt" me" (73 and 75) .--ore ...po::on .vit^oui
"care ;.tic bitterness". Cleopatrr, ±n this interpretation,
did not rail at AjrSony, and Oocil ".n-rr< ; in H.IO a'lioi'trp (::. .
.iV (December I'JDO) ^ ; '7- r') cjug/ rented that " ;rr; L n. • trj- co;;l;l
act only t:io cxtro ;:io .a? cis: vviun die v/au not "1 n;Mid or pettich",
he wrote, "ahe plr,.yed v.it-! un 'if ci di-i^'' force", aJK'i he v;ont
on to reflect thut the If-iCl: of ,';ubtl^ty wac , n arruaont for
"the value of on cr rly and li ; c-1 ^nc; tr inin^". In 2L'.-__?^Ll
T^rU__r .cott eorvlrinor that chc lacked "'corax.nd. . .ou-. only
presence. ..voice sufficiently pov orful to coru-onc 4 " aijc'. "passion
with v.hiea. to subjugate" (19 f;ovember). Co :;hl'-n i^paecrev' by