■シェイクスピア『アントニーとクレオパトラ』（Antony and Cleopatra）の名ゼリフ

■テキスト

Antony and Cleopatra（Oxford World’s Classics）を使用。

■一幕五場から

（ローマに帰還したアントニーを偲ぶ女王）

CLEOPATRA　　　　　　　　　　　O, Charmian,

Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he?

Or does he walk? Or is he on his horse?

O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!

Do bravely, horse, for wot'st thou whom thou mov'st?--

The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm

And burgonet of men. He's speaking now,

Or murmuring 'Where's my serpent of old Nile?'--

For so he calls me.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　(1.5.18-26)

■二幕二場から

（ローマ人が抱くオリエンタリズム通りのイメージで女王を語るイノバーバス）

ENOBARBUS

　　　　　　　　　　　For her own person,

It beggar'd all description. She did lie

In her pavilion---cloth-of-gold of tissue---

O'erpicturing that Venus where we see

The fancy out-work nature; on each side her

Stood pretty, dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,

With divers-colored fans, whose wind did seem

To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,

And what they undid did.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　(2.2.204-212)

■三幕十一場から

（アクチウムの海戦で前線逃亡する女王の船の後追いをしてしまったアントニー）

ANTONY　　　O whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See

How I convey my shame out of thine eyes,

By looking back what I have left behind

'Stroyed in dishonour.

CLEOPATRA　　　　　　　　O my lord, my lord,

Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought

You would have followed.

ANTONY　　　　　　Egypt, thou knew'st too well

My heart was to thy rudder tied by th' strings,

And thou shouldst tow me after. O'er my spirit

Thy full supremacy thou knew'st, and that

Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods

Command me.

CLEOPATRA　　　O, my pardon!

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　(3.11.50-60)

■四幕七場から

（家来イアロスが将軍の先を越して自決する）

EROS　　Turn from me then that noble countenance,

Wherein the worship of the whole world lies.

ANTONY　　(Turning from him ) Lo thee!

EROS　　My sword is drawn.

ANTONY　　　　　　　　　　Then let it do at once

The thing why thou hast drawn it.

EROS　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　My dear master,

My captain and my emperor, let me say,

Before I strike this bloody stroke, farewell.

ANTONY　　Tis said, man; and farewell.

EROS　　Farewell, great chief. Shall I strike now?

ANTONY　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Now, Eros.

EROS　　Why, there then!

　　　　　　(Eros stabs himself)

　　　　　　　　　　　　　Thus do I escape the sorrow

Of Antony's death.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　He dies

ANTONY　　　　　Thrice nobler than myself!

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　(4.7.147-158)

■五幕二場から

（故人となったアントニーの雄姿を回想する女王）

CLEOPATRA　　　　　　　　For his bounty,

There was no winter in't--an autumn 'twas

That grew the more by reaping. His delights

Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above

The element they liv'd in. In his livery

Walk'd crowns and crownets; realms and islands were

As plates dropped from his pocket.

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

But if there be, or ever were one such,

It's past the size of dreaming. Nature wants stuff

To vie strange forms with Fancy, yet t' imagine

An Antony were nature's piece 'gainst Fancy,

Condemning shadows quite.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　(5.2.86-92; 96-100)

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