Today’s Totally Random
Lines
Naught, naught, all naught! I can behold
no longer:
Th’Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,
With all their sixty, fly and turn rudder:
To see’t mine eyes are blasted
Domitius Enobarbus
Antony and Cleopatra
Act III,
Scene x, Line 1
There are a lot of battles in this play, many (if not most) of them are sea battles. Whilst Christopher Nolan, if he were to take on this story, could stage (well, not on a stage, but on a screen) all the battles in all their glory, sixteenth century theater production companies could not. The alternative is to have people talk about and describe the battles. And that’s what we have here.
Need I say more?
Speaking of battles, it's always a bit of a battle grooming this guy; and he manages to ham it up quite well. You'd think he was having his ear cut off, or perhaps that he were having his eyes blasted by seeing
Th'Antonoid, the Egyptian admiral,
With all their sixty, fly and turn rudder:
Trust me: neither of these is the case.
This guy definitely belongs in pictures.
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