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    Timon of Athens
    Timon of Athens
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    Timon of Athens

    By William Shakespeare

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    William Shakespeare is almost universally considered the English language's most famous and greatest writer. In fact, the only people who might dispute that are those who think he didn't write the surviving 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems still attributed to him. Even people who never get around to reading his works in class are instantly familiar with titles like King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo & Shakespeare.


    Timon of Athens is a play about the fortunes of a popular citizen of ancient Athens.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKrill Press
    Release dateFeb 14, 2016
    ISBN9781531205188
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest playwright the world has seen. He produced an astonishing amount of work; 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 5 poems. He died on 23rd April 1616, aged 52, and was buried in the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford.

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      Timon of Athens - William Shakespeare

      TIMON OF ATHENS

      ..................

      William Shakespeare

      MASQUERADE PRESS

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      This book is a work of nonfiction and is intended to be factually accurate.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by William Shakespeare

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Timon of Athens

      Characters of the Play

      Act I

      Scene I. Athens. A hall in Timon’s house.

      Scene II. A banqueting-room in Timon’s house.

      Act II

      Scene I. A Senator’s house.

      Scene II. The same. A hall in Timon’s house.

      Act III

      Scene I. A room in Lucullus’ house.

      Scene II. A public place.

      Scene III. A room in Sempronius’ house.

      Scene IV. The same. A hall in Timon’s house.

      Scene V. The same. The senate-house. The Senate sitting.

      Scene VI. The same. A banqueting-room in Timon’s house.

      Act IV

      Scene I. Without the walls of Athens.

      Scene II. Athens. A room in Timon’s house.

      Scene III. Woods and cave, near the seashore.

      Act V

      Scene I. The woods. Before Timon’s cave.

      Scene II. Before the walls of Athens.

      Scene III. The woods. Timon’s cave, and a rude tomb seen.

      Scene IV. Before the walls of Athens.

      Timon of Athens

      By

      William Shakespeare

      Timon of Athens

      Published by Masquerade Press

      New York City, NY

      First published 1623

      Copyright © Masquerade Press, 2015

      All rights reserved

      Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      About Masquerade Press

      Masquerade Press publishes the greatest dramas ever written and performed, from the Ancient Greek playwrights to icons like Shakespeare and modern poets like Oscar Wilde.

      TIMON OF ATHENS

      ..................

      CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY

      ..................

      Timon of Athens.

      Lucius, Lucullus and Sempronius, flattering lords.

      Ventidius, one of Timon’s false friends.

      Alcibiades, an Athenian captain.

      Apemantus, a churlish philosopher.

      Flavius, steward to Timon.

      Flaminius, Lucilius and Servilius, Timon’s servants.

      Caphis, Philotus, Titus and Hortensius, servants to Timon’s creditors.

      Poet.

      Painter.

      Jeweller.

      Merchant.

      Mercer.

      An Old Athenian.

      Three Strangers.

      A Page.

      A Fool.

      Phrynia and Timandra, mistresses to Alcibiades.

      Cupid and Amazons, in the Masque.

      Lords, Senators, Officers, Soldiers, Servants, Thieves, and Attendants.

      Scene: Athens and the neighbouring woods.

      ACT I

      ..................

      SCENE I. ATHENS. A HALL IN TIMON’S HOUSE.

      ..................

      Enter Poet, Painter, Jeweller, Merchant, and others, at several doors

      Poet

      Good day, sir.

      Painter

      I am glad you’re well.

      Poet

      I have not seen you long: how goes the world?

      Painter

      It wears, sir, as it grows.

      Poet

      Ay, that’s well known:

      But what particular rarity? what strange,

      Which manifold record not matches? See,

      Magic of bounty! all these spirits thy power

      Hath conjured to attend. I know the merchant.

      Painter

      I know them both; th’ other’s a jeweller.

      Merchant

      O, ’tis a worthy lord.

      Jeweller

      Nay, that’s most fix’d.

      Merchant

      A most incomparable man, breathed, as it were,

      To an untirable and continuate goodness:

      He passes.

      Jeweller: I have a jewel here —

      Merchant

      O, pray, let’s see’t: for the Lord Timon, sir?

      Jeweller: If he will touch the estimate: but, for that —

      Poet

      [Reciting to himself] ‘When we for recompense have praised the vile,

      It stains the glory in that happy verse

      Which aptly sings the good.’

      Merchant

      ’Tis a good form.

      Looking at the jewel

      Jeweller

      And rich: here is a water, look ye.

      Painter

      You are rapt, sir, in some work, some dedication

      To the great lord.

      Poet

      A thing slipp’d idly from me.

      Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes

      From whence ’tis nourish’d: the fire i’ the flint

      Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame

      Provokes itself and like the current flies

      Each bound it chafes. What have you there?

      Painter

      A picture, sir. When comes your book forth?

      Poet

      Upon the heels of my presentment, sir.

      Let’s see your piece.

      Painter

      ’Tis a good piece.

      Poet

      So ’tis: this comes off well and excellent.

      Painter

      Indifferent.

      Poet

      Admirable: how this grace

      Speaks his own standing! what a mental power

      This eye shoots forth! how big imagination

      Moves in this lip! to the dumbness of the gesture

      One might interpret.

      Painter

      It is a pretty mocking of the life.

      Here is a touch; is’t good?

      Poet

      I will say of it,

      It tutors nature: artificial strife

      Lives in these touches, livelier than life.

      Enter certain Senators, and pass over

      Painter

      How this lord is follow’d!

      Poet

      The senators of Athens: happy man!

      Painter

      Look, more!

      Poet

      You see this confluence, this great flood of visitors.

      I have, in this rough work, shaped out a man,

      Whom this beneath world doth embrace and hug

      With amplest entertainment: my free drift

      Halts not particularly, but moves itself

      In a wide sea of wax: no levell’d malice

      Infects one comma in the course I hold;

      But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,

      Leaving no tract behind.

      Painter

      How shall I understand you?

      Poet

      I will unbolt to you.

      You see how all conditions, how all minds,

      As well of glib and slippery creatures as

      Of grave and austere quality, tender down

      Their services to Lord Timon: his large fortune

      Upon his good and gracious nature hanging

      Subdues and properties to his love and tendance

      All sorts of hearts; yea, from the glass-faced flatterer

      To Apemantus, that

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