By William Shakespeare, John Dover Wilson (editor)
John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, released among 1921 and 1966, turned the vintage Cambridge version of Shakespeare's performs and poems until eventually the Nineteen Eighties. The sequence, lengthy in view that out-of-print, is now reissued. every one paintings is offered either separately and as a collection, and every features a long and full of life creation, major textual content, and immense notes and thesaurus published on the again. The variation, which begun with The Tempest and ended with The Sonnets, positioned into perform the options and theories that had developed below the 'New Bibliography'. Remarkably by means of modern criteria, even though it took the easiest a part of part a century to provide, the recent Shakespeare concerned just a small band of editors in addition to Dover Wilson himself. because the volumes took form, a lot of Dover Wilson's textual tools received basic attractiveness and have become a longtime a part of later editorial perform, for instance within the Arden and New Cambridge Shakespeares.
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3 We have heard of that 'grizzled head' before,1 always with a touch of pathos, and the allusion here is the more moving in that we knoW the 'goal' Antony will 'get' in the morrow's lists is death. Yet we welcome death when it comes as the only line of retreat left open from a life of shame and dishonour. 1 4. 14. Shakespearean Tragedy, p. 63. 3 4. 8. 18-22 (cf. note 1. 22). 4 3. 13. IT, cf. 3. 11. 13-15* a xxviii ANTONY & CLEOPATRA But Antony possesses qualities finer than any of the military ones which brought him victory in the days of his greatest glory, otherwise we should never 'dread' the coming end.
38. The words are Cleopatra's but clearly Antony's due. 3 1. 2. 191-2. Cf. Pompey's tribute to Antony's 'soldiership' at 2. 1. 34-5. 4 See 1. 3. 82-6 and note 1. 86. J 3. 13. 17. No doubt beardless. 6 4. 12. 48. xxvi ANTONY S? 1 He does him honour, he thinks, to send him a personal challenge, but the sarcasm with which he offers it breathes the contempt he feels. 4 I think Shakespeare meant us to resent it too. We can be sure at any rate that the shame which overwhelms 1 3- " • 35~4°. * 3- 13- 2°-53 i.
In November 1925, Baliol Holloway gave an admirable rendering of Antony to Miss Edith Evans's Cleopatra; Neil Porter played Enobarbus, and John Garside was now Lepidus. The next year at Drury Lane on 9 November, the scene of the Messenger and Egypt's Queen (Leon Quartermaine and Miss Fay Compton) was one of ten scenes from various plays in a special Shakespearian performance. In 1930 (24 November), the Old Vic played the tragedy almost without cuts, with an excellent cast; John Gielgud was Antony, Ralph Richardson Enobarbus, while Dorothy Green abundantly fulfilled the promise of her Stratford performance of 1912 as Cleopatra.