1. Read Martha Tuck Rosette’s essay, “The Comic Structure of Tragic Endings: The Suicide Scenes in Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra.” Focus especially on the following pages: 152–153, and 158-164:
The Comic Structures of Tragic Endings The Suicide Scenes in Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra – ComicStructureinTragicEndings.pdf
2. Post to the discussion forum your response to this question:
At the end of her essay, Rozette writes that Antony and Cleopatra “repeatedly delight us with comic insights into the mysteries of human nature. Foremost among these mysteries is the paradoxical way in which the lovers alternately torment and celebrate one another, which is one of the most timeless subjects of comedy” (164). Give an example of one of the ways in which either Antony or Cleopatra torments and celebrates the other. How does this viewpoint of comedy compare with aspects of comedy we have explored thus far in the course?
