...even while positively thinking" (p. 154). Immobile and Immortal in the Monument of Literary History Give me my robe. Put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. — Cleopatra, in Antony and Cleopatra What are Cleopatra's immortal longings? They are directed toward...

...Cleopatra's death. Clearly, true to her character, she has stagemanaged it as impressive spectacle: Give me my robe, put on my crown: I have Immortal longings in me. The staging is regal, and the eloquence is unsurpassed: she is proud, arrogant, vain, jealous, reflective,...

...resonance it has if we could not hear echoing between the lines the gritty accents of the opposing voice: Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. (5.2.279) Truly, I have him; but I would not be the party that should desire you to touch him, for...

...dissembling looks? By the end of his career, Shakespeare arrived at a suppleness of enjambment like this: Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me. Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip. Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear Antony call. I see...

...to foot I am marble-constant, now the fleeting moon No planet is of mine. 10169 Antony and Cleopatra 1958 7889 (attributed) There is no surprise more magical than the 10170 Antony and Cleopatra Dost i In ii i not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep?...

...camouflaged with makeup. I want you to come with me while I remove this make-up. Where's your jacket?" "Give me my robe; put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me . . ." Fox went out and returned with a tail-coat that was in great disorder. "Nothing in the pockets,...

...exults: "Caesar's beguil'd." As she affixes the serpents to her breast, the great words swim past: Give me my robe, put on my crown. I have Immortal longings in me. Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip. .... Methinks I hear Antony call. I see him rouse himself To praise...

...Cleopatra's arms. Antony and Cleopatra Act V, Scene 1 (Cleopatra allows the snake to hite her) CLEOPATRA. Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me: now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip: Yare, yare, good Iras,- quick. Methinks I hear Antony call,- I...

...the desolate memory of the few stones left of the city that had nurtured Hannibal and betrayed him. Give me my robe, put on my crown! I have Immortal longings in me: Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip: — 62 Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. — Methinks I hear Antony...

...assumption of a royal identity, the immortal body symbolized by the regalia in which her women deck her:2 'Give me my robe, put on my crown — I have | Immortal longings in me' (5.2.279-80). 1 For an account of the political doctrine on which this scene depends, see Ernst H....