Antony and Cleopatra: A Critical Reader, Domenico Lovascio

Автор: Virginia Mason Vaughan
Название: Antony and Cleopatra: Language and Writing
ISBN: 1472504992 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472504999
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Reading Antony and Cleopatra is particularly challenging because of Shakespeare's masterful embodiment of Rome and Egypt's contrasting worlds in language, structure, and characterization.
Instead of seeing the interaction of Roman and Egyptian perspectives in Antony and Cleopatra as a type of double image of reality that changes as one moves from one location to another, students often find themselves compelled to pick sides. The more romantic opt for Cleopatra as the most sympathetic character, while the pragmatists dismiss her lifestyle as self-indulgent. The central challenge in reading this play, in other words, is to resist the compulsion to take sides and, instead, to adopt a 'both-and' point of view rather than an 'either-or' choice. The play's central binary - Rome vs. Egypt - is deeply embedded in its language and structure, yet the play consistently complicates our view of either side. The book encourages students to think outside the binary box, to understand, and to celebrate, Shakespeare's exploitation of the multivalent nature of language.

As well as helping students to analyse the intricacy of Shakespeare's language in Antony and Cleopatra, each chapter's 'Writing matters' section enables students to develop their own writing strategies in coursework and examinations.

Автор: Domenico Lovascio
Название: Antony and Cleopatra: A Critical Reader
ISBN: 1350049905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350049901
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research.

Key features include:
- Essays on the play's critical and performance history
- A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play
- A selection of new essays by leading scholars
- A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online

Antony and Cleopatra is among Shakespeare's most enduringly popular tragedies. A theatrical piece of extraordinary political power, it also features one of his most memorable couples. Both intellectually and emotionally challenging, Antony and Cleopatra also tests the boundaries of theatrical representation. This volume offers a stimulating and accessible guide to the play that takes stock of the past and current situation of scholarship while simultaneously opening up fresh, thought-provoking critical perspectives.

Автор: Zak William F.
Название: The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra: Asps Amidst the Figs
ISBN: 1498510361 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498510363
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Описание: Zak argues that Shakespeare`s Antony and Cleopatra represents the manner in which unwitting narcissism fails the genuine love that would have elevated the lovers above the tragedy they instead merely endure-both privileging "easy ways to die" to the "strenuous labor" required to deliver a birth of richer life into their passion.

Автор: Shakespeare
Название: Antony and Cleopatra
ISBN: 0521443067 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521443067
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Richard Madelaine provides the most detailed, extensive and up-to-date history of Antony and Cleopatra on stage and screen, in and beyond Britain. In the process he reveals not only the rich plurality of possible readings of the play, but also changing attitudes to Shakespeare.