Timon of Athens
William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine
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- English
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Timon of Athens
William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine
About This Book
The real Timon of Athens lived there in the fifth century BCE, making him a contemporary of Socrates and Pericles. Shakespeare presents Timon as a figure who suffers such profound disillusionment that he becomes a misanthrope, or man-hater. This makes him a more interesting character than the caricature he had become to Shakespeare's contemporaries, for whom "Timonist" was a slang term for an unsociable man.Shakespeare's play includes the wealthy, magnificent, and extravagantly generous figure of Timon before his transformation. Timon expects that, having received as gifts all that he owned, his friends will be equally generous to him.Once his creditors clamor for repayment, Timon finds that his idealization of friendship is an illusion. He repudiates his friends, abandons Athens, and retreats to the woods. Yet his misanthropy arises from the destruction of an admirable illusion, from which his subsequent hatred can never be entirely disentangled.The authoritative edition of Timon of Athens from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
-Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
-Scene-by-scene plot summaries
-A key to the play's famous lines and phrases
-An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
-An annotated guide to further reading Essay by CoppƩlia KahnThe Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.
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OF
ATHENS
ACT 1
POET Good day, sir. | 1 |
PAINTER I am glad youāre well. | 2 |
POET | |
I have not seen you long. How goes the world? | 3 |
PAINTER | |
It wears, sir, as it grows. | 4 |
POET Ay, thatās well known. | 5 |
But what particular rarity, what strange, | 6 |
Which manifold record not matches? See, | 7 |
Magic of bounty, all these spirits thy power | 8 |
Hath conjured to attend. I know the merchant. | 9 |
PAINTER I know them both. Thā otherās a jeweler. | 10 |
MERCHANT, <to Jeweler> | |
O, ātis a worthy lord! | 11 |
JEWELER Nay, thatās most fixed. | 12 |
MERCHANT | |
A most incomparable man, breathed, as it were, | 13 |
To an untirable and continuate goodness. | 14 |
He passes. | 15 |
JEWELER I have a jewel hereā | 16 |
MERCHANT | |
O, pray, letās see āt. For the Lord Timon, sir? | 17 |
JEWELER | |
If he will touch the estimate. But for thatā | 18 |
POET, <to Painter> | |
When we for recompen... |