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	Shakespeare Resource Center - Timon of Athens Synopsis
		Timon is a kind and generous aristocrat in Athens with one major fault—he is a spendthrift.
		Timon, it seems, was digging for roots to eat and stumbled upon a buried trove of gold.
		Alcibiades enters Athens with little resistance; the Athenians beg Timon for help, but the only help Timon offers is a tree outside his cave—upon which he says they can hang themselves, each according to his or her will.
	www.bardweb.net /plays/timon.html (385 words)

	Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
		Timon holds a great feast and all attend and eat much, while Timon, who is simply content to be surround by "his friends", eats little.
		Timon's steward Flavius complains that Timon is too generous and already he begins to go into debt.
		Timon promises Flavius will pay them, but Flavius finally convinces Timon that he is beyond broke and is in fact deep in debt.
	www.online-literature.com /shakespeare/timonofathens (1087 words)

	Shakespeare Timon of Athens Summary
		Timon's story is referred to in Plato and Aristophanes (neither of which versions survive), and he had the reputation as a famous misanthrope.
		Timon on Athens is a wealthy man, who gives generously of all he has to his fair-weather friends and to obsequious merchants and the sycophantic poet, jeweler, and painter.
		Timon is impatient and sees them as a challenge to his honor and puts them off.
	www.mcgoodwin.net /pages/otherbooks/ws_timonathens.html (1234 words)

	Timon of Athens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The play is oddly constructed, with several lacunae, and for this reason, it is often described as unfinished.
		In recent years, stylistic evidence has been found which indicates that Thomas Middleton was involved in the writing, either as collaborator or reviser, and it has been argued that the play's unusual features are the result of the the play being co-authored by playwrights with very different mentalities.
		The Life of Timon of Athens - HTML version of this title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timon_of_Athens (409 words)

	Timon of Athens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Any company attempting "Timon of Athens" ventures onto rocky, infrequently explored ground, William Shakespeare's unfinished late tragedy, a kind of rough-cut "Coriolanus" or "King Lear" without the dramatic scope or psychological insight, depicts the abrupt downfall of a generous but self-deluded glad-hander who's betrayed by a flock of corrupt Athenian sycophants.
		Timon's frenzied exit just before intermission is an audacious visual coup that deserves to be discovered fresh by each startled audience.
		This may not be a "Timon" for the ages, but it's an acute entertainment as we move from an election year into a new administration.
	www.thickdescription.org /History/Timon_of_Athens/timon_of_athens.html (1394 words)

	Play Shakespeare.com :: The Ultimate Free Shakespeare Resource - Timon of Athens
		Timon, returninfg from the hunt, is upset that he has not been told this before, and begins to vent on Flavius, who tells them that he has tried repeatedly in the past without success, and now he is at the end; all of his land has been sold.
		Timon's servants are turned down, one by one, by Timon's false friends, two giving lengthy monologues as to their anger with them.
		Timon acknowledges that he has had one true friend in Flavius, a shining example of an otherwise diseased and impure race, but laments that this man is a mere servant.
	www.playshakespeare.com /content/view/94/152 (768 words)

	SparkNotes: Timon of Athens: Summary
		Timon is enraged to be trapped in his house by groups of creditors' servants, and plans a last dinner party.
		Timon says grace over the covered dishes, asking the gods to be sure to never give too much to mankind, always hold something back, and to never ask for anything back, for mankind will abandon them.
		Impressed at this show of pity, Timon realizes Flavius was the one honest man he came in contact with in Athens, and he is the one man who is able to escape his enthusiastic cursing of humanity.
	www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/timonofathens/summary.html (967 words)

	Lambs' Tales From Shakespeare - Timon Of Athens
		Timon, a lord of Athens, in the enjoyment of a princely fortune, affected a humour of liberality which knew no limits.
		For lord Timon weighed his friends' affection with his own, and so fond was he of bestowing, that he could have dealt kingdoms to these supposed friends, and never have been weary.
		Timon would still put him off, and turn the discourse to something else; for nothing is so deaf to remonstrance as riches turned to poverty, nothing is so unwilling to believe its situation, nothing so incredulous to its own true state, and hard to give credit to a reverse.
	shakespeare.palomar.edu /lambtales/LTTIMON.HTM (1307 words)

	William Shakespeare: Timon of Athens
		The play of Timon is a domestic tragedy, and therefore strongly fastens on the attention of the reader.
		"Timon of Athens" always appeared to us to be written with as intense a feeling of his subject as any one play of Shakespear.
		Timon is guilty, and has to take the consequence of his deed.
	geocities.com /litpageplus/shakmoul-timon.html (949 words)

	Timon of Athens: List of Scenes
		Act 1, Scene 2: A banqueting-room in Timon's house.
		Act 5, Scene 2: Before the walls of Athens.
		Act 5, Scene 4: Before the walls of Athens.
	jollyroger.com /shakespeare/7timon_contents.html (297 words)

	Timon of Athens, Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb
		Sempronius, and every one of these mercenary lords to whom Timon applied in their turn, returned the same evasive answer or direct denial; even Ventidius, the redeemed and now rich Ventidius, refused to assist him with the loan of those five talents which Timon had not lent but generously given him in his distress.
		To him they come in their extremity, to whom, when he was in extremity they had shown but small regard; as if they presumed upon his gratitude whom they had disobliged, and had derived a claim to his courtesy from their own most discourteous and unpiteous treatment.
		But Timon the naked, Timon the man-hater, was no longer lord Timon, the lord of bounty, the flower of valour, their defence in war, their ornament in peace.
	www.ibiblio.org /eldritch/cml/tfstimon.html (1370 words)

	Royal Shakespeare Company on stage at Stratford Upon Avon's Royal Shakespeare Theatre
		Timon is believed to have been written at the tail end of the great sequence of Shakespeare's tragedies, possibly in collaboration with Thomas Middleton, and on the page at least it seems scrappy and incomplete.
		Timon of Athens is every bit as great a play but it comes around on a main stage roughly once a generation.
		Doran, realising that Timon of Athens was written a few years after James 1 came to the throne, has been inspired by recent accounts of how the new monarch ran his affairs...
	www.albemarle-london.com /rsc-timon.html (1072 words)

	Timon Of Athens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Timon escapes by inviting the soldier Alcibiades to a banquet.
		Timon even thinks of asking the Senate for 1000 talents but Flavius says not to bother: he's already asked and been turned down.
		Servants of Timon's creditors lay siege to his house, but they're embarrassed at dunning the man their masters took so much from.
	www.doxidelight.com /shakespeare/timon/timon.html (694 words)

	Timon of Athens
		TIMON OF ATHENS always appeared to us to be written with as intense a feeling of his subject as any one play of Shakespeare.
		Apemantus sees nothing good in any object, and exaggerates whatever is disgusting: Timon is tormented with the perpetual contrast between things and appearances, between the fresh, tempting outside and the rottenness within, and invokes mischiefs on the heads of mankind proportioned to the sense of his wrongs and of their treacheries.
		Timon is here just as ideal in his passion for ill as he had before been in his belief of good.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/timon_of_athens001.html (1109 words)

	Timon of Athens
		Timon, a wealthy Athenian is generous to a fault.
		He retreats to a cave outside of Athens and proceeds to rail against all mankind.
		Timon of Athens is a heart wrenching fable of frivolous self-deception, avarice and loyalty.
	www.greenstage.org /1999/timon (465 words)

	Timon of Athens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Timon rages that his home is a prison now, but he tells Flavius to invite all his "friends" to another banquet.
		Lords gather at Timon's house for the latest banquet, rationalizing that he cannot be as destitute as has been reported.
		Timon dismisses as insignificant their regrets for not sending the requested funds.
	www.wsu.edu:8001 /~delahoyd/shakespeare/timon3.html (577 words)

	Theater News - Reviews: Timon of Athens -
		Timon of Athens is one of those "forgotten" Shakespeare plays that is rarely performed, and undeservedly so.
		It concerns Timon, a noble of Athens, whose generosity and sociability makes him beloved by many; however, when he finds himself in debt, his so-called friends turn their backs on him.
		Timon's heartbreak makes his transition from philanthropist to misanthrope believable; it's an important lesson, both for him and the audience, that money and friendship are not good bedfellows.
	www.theatermania.com /news/reviews/index.cfm?story=2510&cid=1 (599 words)

	Timon of Athens
		By EDWARD D. The "Shakespeare" Play, Timon of Athens, was never printed in quarto and, so far as is known, never produced on any stage, previously to its appearance in the First Folio of 1623.
		Will Shaksper having died seven years before the publication of the Folio, this must mean that Shaksper had handed over this play of Timon of Athens to Heminge and Condell in his lifetime, and if this was so it is certainly extraordinary that Heminge and Condell never mentioned this fact to anybody.
		It must be remembered that Bacon fell from power in 1621, and the play of Timon is first heard of two years afterwards, in 1623.
	www.sirbacon.org /links/timon.htm (403 words)

	Gabrielle and Timon of Athens: The Failure of Goodness
		Timon uses money to control people and glorify himself, then uses gold to promote the destruction of his ungrateful home, the city-state Athens.
		Timon cheered and applauded the Athenians' victory, as did we all, and led a "kaltaka" toast to the Bard.
		Since Athens is the loser in the war with Sparta, we can imagine Ares celebrating his victory and congratulating himself, if one of his sycophants does not, for fighting dirty, in the style of the Evil Xena.
	whoosh.org /issue28/rasmussen1.html (2860 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Timon of Athens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Timon of Athens is a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his friends, and, when he is finally impoverished, learns to despise humanity with a hatred that drives him to his grave.
		Yet the setting in ancient Athens allows it to read as a timeless fable, deeply relevant to a modern society that sees itself as pursuing material prosperity to the point of self-destruction.
		The second half is a startlingly experimental drama in which a succession of Timon's real and false friends unsuccessfully challenge his commitment to his life as a misanthropic recluse in the woods.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0198129386 (421 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Timon of Athens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Timon of Athens is rich and generous, happy to provide his friends, servants and acquaintances with money whenever they require it.
		Timon, a wealthy, generous Athenian, is a man who never hesitates to help his friends in need.
		However, when Timon becomes the misanthrope, his voice darkens and coarsens; and it is very hard to tell it from Apemantus' in their overly-long exchange of curses in 4:3.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140868925 (1515 words)

	Drama: Timon of Athens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		TIMON You have done our pleasures much grace, fair ladies, Set a fair fashion on our entertainment, Which was not half so beautiful and kind; You have added worth unto 't and lustre, And entertain'd me with mine own device; I am to thank you for 't.
		TIMON I will dispatch you severally; you to Lord Lucius; to Lord Lucullus you: I hunted with his honour to-day: you, to Sempronius: commend me to their loves, and, I am proud, say, that my occasions have found time to use 'em toward a supply of money: let the request be fifty talents.
		TIMON Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress: your diet shall be in all places alike.
	drama.eserver.org /plays/renaissance/shakespeare/tragedies/timon-of-athens.txt (12131 words)

	Timon of Athens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Timon sarcastically flatters them before cursing them, throwing gold at them, and chasing them away.
		Timon doesn't care what happens to Athens and pretends to only long enough to give fleeting hope to the senators that there is a solution to the coming misery -- but it requires that anyone who wants to escape it come there and hang himself in a nearby tree.
		Timon of Athens sounds like an extreme embodiment of that scorn of humanity of which flashes are observable in Shakespeare's works almost from the beginning, that contempt which in Hamlet and the 'dark' Comedies and some of the Sonnets become conspicuous...
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/shakespeare/timon5.html (379 words)

	Timon of Athens Summary
		The Life of Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare written around 1607 or 1608.
		In the essay below, Baldo argues that Shakespeare develops the rhetorical practice of generalizing to a new height in Timons of Athens, unprecedented in renaissance literature.
		Explores the transition of the character Timon, from Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, from a generous man to a needy man. Includes an examination of key passages from the play.
	www.bookrags.com /Timon_of_Athens (389 words)

	Timon of Athens: List of Scenes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Act 1, Scene 2: A banqueting-room in Timon's house.
		Act 5, Scene 2: Before the walls of Athens.
		Act 5, Scene 4: Before the walls of Athens.
	www-tech.mit.edu /Shakespeare/timon/index.html (64 words)

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	www.athensresort.com /athens-history.htm (200 words)

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