Antony and Cleopatra

by Potter, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9781403990419
• ISBN10: 1403990417
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-23
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This Reader's Guide provides a critical survey of the responses to this popular play, from the earliest published accounts to the present day. Leading the reader through the material in a chronological fashion, the book draws on a rich range of critical writings, including Dr. Johnson, Coleridge, Bradley, and Leavis. Nicholas Potter carefully relates this material to more general issues regarding Shakespearean criticism and scholarship, and the development of literary history and theory.

Author Biography

NICHOLAS POTTER is Head of the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at Swansea Institute of Higher Education, UK. His previous publications include Shakespeare: Othello, also in the Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism series

Table of Contents

Introduction: 'Like to a Vagabond Flag Upon a Stream'

The Vagaries of Opinion Concerning Antony and Cleopatra

'Let's Do It After the High Roman Fashion'

Shakespeare's Classical World

Shakespeare's World Well Lost? Theatre in England During the Interregnum and After

Dryden's Re-Vision of Antony and Cleopatra

Romantics to Victorians

'This enchanting Queen'

Modernists

'No more but e'en a woman'

The Editions

'The varying shore o' the world'

The Romanness of the Roman Plays (1)

The Romanness of the Roman Plays (2)

Postmodernists

Antony and Cleopatra

'A child o' the time'?

Conclusion

'Infinite Variety'?

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

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