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==T.S. Eliot Reading "A Game of Chess"==
 
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==Stanza 77-96==
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==Essay on A Game of Chess==
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=William [[Shakespeare]]==
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==Virgil==
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==T.S. Eliot Reading "A Game of Chess"==
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==Lines 77-96==
  
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===William Shakespeare===
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    The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
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    Glowed on the marble, where the glass
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    Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
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    Lines 77-79
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The lines here are from the play ''Antony and Cleopatra II.ii''
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    Enobarbus
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    The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,
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    Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
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    Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
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===Virgil===
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    In vials of ivory and coloured glass
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    Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,
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    Unguent, powdered, or liquid—troubled, confused
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    And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air
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    That freshened from the window, these ascended
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    In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,
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    Flung their smoke into the laquearia,
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    Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
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    Lines 86-93
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Taken from Virgil's ''Aeneid''
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From a translation by Robert Fagles translated works of the ''Aneid''
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    They light the lamps,
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    hung from the coffered ceilings sheathed in gilt,
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    and blazing torches burn the night away.
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==Lines 97-103==
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===John Milton===
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    Above the antique mantel was displayed
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    As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
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    Lines 97-98
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From ''Paradise Lost''.
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    A Silvan Scene, and as the ranks ascend
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    Shade above shade, a woodie Theatre
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    Of stateliest view.
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===Ovid===
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    Above the antique mantel was displayed
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    As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
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    The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
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    So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale
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    Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
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    And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
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    “Jug Jug” to dirty ears.
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                    Lines 97-103
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From ''Metamorphosis, VI Philomela''
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    Throughout ''Metamorphosis'' there is constant mention of birds creating sounds.
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    Only a cock stood on the rooftree
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    Co co rico co co rico
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    In a flash of lightning. Then a damp gust
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    Bringing rain
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==Lines 104-110==
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==Lines 111-127==
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===William Shakespeare===
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    Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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    Line 125
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From ''The Tempest''
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    Ferdinand:
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    Full fathom five thy father lies;
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    Of his bones are coral made;
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    Those are pearls that were his eyes:
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    Nothing of him that doth fade
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    But doth suffer a sea-change
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    Into something rich and strange.
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    Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell
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    ''I.ii The island. Before PROSPERO'S cell.''
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===John Webster===
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    “What is that noise?”
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      The wind under the door.
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      Line 117-18
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From a Jacobian tragedy stageplay ''The Devil's Case''
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    “Is the wind in that door still?”
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==Lines 128-138==
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===The Mysterious Rag===
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    O O O O that Shakespeherian rag—
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    It's so elegant
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    So intelligent
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    Lines 128-30
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A popular song called "The Mysterious Rag" by Irving Berlin in 1911
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Go to: [[Video#That_Mysterious_Rag]]
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===Thomas Middleton===
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    The hot water at ten.
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    And if it rains, a closed car at four.
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    And we shall play a game of chess,
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    Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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    Lines 135-38
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From ''Women Beware Women'' I.II
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    It appears from the following passage in our poet's Game Chess that the pieces now called rooks were sometimes formerly called dukes
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    Error. There's the full number of the game
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    Kings and their pawns queens bishops
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    Knights and dukes
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    Ign. Dukes they re called rookes by some
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    Error. Corruptively
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    Le Roc fi the word Custodie de la Roch
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    The Keeper of the Forts
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==Lines 139-172==
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===William Shakespeare===
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    Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.
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    Line 172
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From Hamlet, a line by Ophelia IV.V
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    '''OPHELIA'''
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    I hope all will be well. We must be patient: but I
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    cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him
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    i' the cold ground. My brother shall know of it:
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    and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my
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    coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies;
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    good night, good night.
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