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“We look back at Shakespeare and regret our absence from him because it seems an absence from reality.”
Conclusion to The Play’s The Thing Part Two By Dennis Abrams ———————————- Honestly, I can’t believe it’s over. For two and half years, We’ve been reading and talking and thinking about Shakespeare. And to help bring this to a close, … Continue reading
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“…Timon of Athens is a puzzle. Is it a tragedy? It is the strangest of Shakespeare’s plays.”
Timon of Athens Act Five By Dennis Abrams ————————– Act Five: The Poet and the Painter head out to the forest in hope of payment, but Timon drives them away. By this time Alcibiades is threatening Athens itself, and two … Continue reading
“There’s nothing level in our cursed natures,/But direct villany. Therefore, be abhorr’d /All feasts, societies, and throngs of men!”
Timon of Athens Act Four By Dennis Abrams ——————————– Act Four: Although his servants remain loyal to him, Timon is now driven insane with anger; he curses the city and its residents, and leaves to lives in the woods. While … Continue reading
“Uncover, dogs, and lap.”
Timon of Athens Act Three By Dennis Abrams ———————— Act Three: One by one, Timon’s so-called “friends” refuse to help him, all making the feeblest of excuses. As the servants of Timon’s creditors move in pressing their claims, Timon enters … Continue reading
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“No care, no stop; no senseless of expense/That he will neither know how to maintain it/Nor case his flow of riot”
Timon of Athens Act Two By Dennis Abrams ———————– Act Two: Timon’s creditors are getting restless and send their servants to request that he pay off his debts. Flavius is attempting to stall them when Timon appears and demands to … Continue reading
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“His promises fly so beyond his state/That what he speaks is all in debt, he owes/For every word.”
Timon of Athens Act One By Dennis Abrams —————- MAJOR CHARACTERS Lord Timon of Athens Lords and Senators of Athens Timon’s false friends: Lucius, Lucullus, Sempronius and Ventidus Alcibiades, an Athenian soldier Apemantus, an ill-tempered philosopher Servants of Timon’s various … Continue reading
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If Timon is timeless, it is because it is always timely. The brilliance of the play is the way in which its self-serving and hypocritical flatterers resemble those of every economic and social era”
Timon of Athens An Introduction By Dennis Abrams ——- It’s a story as old as money itself: the fable of the big-spending man who uses, then loses all of his wealth – and with it, his wits and everything he … Continue reading
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