 | William Shakespeare - 1870 - 192 str.
...Madam !— Char. 0 madam, madam, madam !— Iras. Royal Egypt ! Empress!— Char. Peace, peace, Iras 1 Cleo. No more,* but e'en a woman, and commanded By...the maid that milks, And does the meanest chares. 4 —It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods; To tell them that this world did equal... | |
 | Jeannette King - 1978 - 200 str.
...passion, and each [is] but portion of one organism called sex' (p. 187). In love, Cleopatra herself is No more but e'en a woman, and commanded By such poor...passion as the maid that milks And does the meanest chores. (Anthony and Cleopatra, 1v, 15, 72) In his hope that he will find spiritual refreshment and... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 str.
...moon— and at the same time that she is, after all, but a mortal woman with ordinary human passions: No more but e'en a woman, and commanded By such poor...as the maid that milks And does the meanest chares. Her problem now is how to come to terms with what remains of life. Shakespeare does not hurry, however,... | |
 | Michael Steppat - 1980 - 646 str.
...temperament. Thus the penitent notes struck by her in moments of depression, such as her plea that she is e'en a woman, and commanded By such poor passion as the maid that milks And does the meanest chares, sound hollow to Lee, who points out that to the last she is proud of all her past conquests (xxxii).... | |
 | Linda Bamber - 1982 - 223 str.
...represents the culmination of the spiritual growth we expect in a tragic hero: Antony and Cleopatra 67 No more but e'en a woman, and commanded By such poor...as the maid that milks And does the meanest chares. (IV.xv. 76-78) It is worth noticing, however, that these two speeches contradict one another. Marble-constancy... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - 2004 - 264 str.
...apostrophe, "Royal Egypt! / Empress!" (IV.xv.yo-i) and comes to a new understanding of her own humanity: No more but e'en a woman, and commanded By such poor...as the maid that milks And does the meanest chares. (IV.xv.73-s) Quite consciously, Cleopatra attempts to pattern her last actions after Antony's example:... | |
 | Charles Martindale - 1990 - 340 str.
...English is Shakespeare's Cleopatra, who in reply to Iras's plea : 'Royal Egypt, Empress!...' says: No more but e'en a woman, and commanded By such poor...as the maid that milks And does the meanest chares . . . (Antony and Cleopatra IV xv 71-5) In no other of his plays is there any suggestion that Shakespeare... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1993 - 166 str.
...madam, madam, madam! 70 IRAS Royal Egypt, Empress! [she stirs CHARMIAN Peace, peace, Iras! CLEOPATRA No more but e'en a woman, and commanded By such poor...does the meanest chares. It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods, To tell them that this world did equal theirs Till they had stol'n our... | |
 | Harley Granville-Barker - 1993 - 164 str.
...brings them to terms on the ground of common humanity. What is Cleopatra's passport to tragic heights? No more but e'en a woman, and commanded By such poor...as the maid that milks And does the meanest chares. . . . With this, of course, they risk the loss of their conventionally heroic stature. But it is preserved... | |
 | Carol Thomas Neely - 1985 - 300 str.
...in response to him, she settles easily into a self defined entirely by its female "passion": a self, "No more but e'en a woman, and commanded / By such...passion as the maid that milks / And does the meanest chores" (IV. xv. 76-78). Her project, like that of other heroines, comic and tragic alike, is to absorb... | |
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No more, but e'en a woman, and commanded By such poor passion as the maid that milks And does the meanest chares. It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods ; To tell them that this world did equal theirs Till they had stol'n our jewel. 
