Timon of Athens est tragoedia Gulielmi Shakesperii. (cum Thomas Middleton scripta ese potest) Haec fabula de vita Timonis Atheniensis, philosophus Scepticismi more misanthropiae fortasse scripta est annis fere 1604-1605 (sed hoc incertum est) et primum in editione in folio (titulo Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies) anno 1623 edita.

Verbum quod pecuniam odium putat stat in Actione IV Scena III quod Carolus Marx in suo libro De Capitali citat.[1]

Notae recensere

  1. "Gold! yellow, glittering persious gold! Thus much of this, will make black white; foul, fair; Wrong, right; base noble; old, young; coward, vilaint. ... What this, you gods! Why this Will lug your priests and servants from your side; Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads. This yellow slave Will knit and break religions; bless the accurs'd; Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves And give them title, knee and approbation With senators of the bench; this is it, That makes the wappen'd widow wed again ... Come damned earth, Thou common whore of mankind." ex Das Kapital, Volumen I, Sectio I, Caput III

Editiones recensere

Timon of Athens : Index personarum
 
Gulielmus Shakesperius

Timon, nobilis Atheniensis · Lucius, Lucullus et Sempronius, domini assentatores · Ventidius, Timonis falsus amicus · Apemantus, philosophus asper et avarus · Alcibiades, dux Atheniensis · Flavius, ministrator Timonis · Flaminius, Lucilius, et Servilius, servi Timonis · Caphis, Philotus, Titus, Lucius et Hortensius, servi Timonis creditorum · Ventidii servi · Varronis et Isidori (Timonis creditorum) servi · Tres advenae · Senex Atheniensis · Pagius · Scurra · Poeta, pictor, aurifex et mercator
Phrynia et Timandra, Alcibiadis amatrices
Domini, senatores, praepositi, milites, fures, et ministri

 

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