Antony and Cleopatra
2nd Edition
Part of The New Cambridge Shakespeare
- Real Author: William Shakespeare
- Editor: David Bevington, University of Chicago
- Date Published: July 2005
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521612876
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The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of Antony and Cleopatra, David Bevington has included in his introductory section a thorough consideration of recent critical and stage interpretations, demonstrating how the theatrical design and imagination of this play make it one of Shakespeare's most remarkable tragedies. The edition is attentive throughout to the play as theatre: a detailed, illustrated account of the stage history is followed, in the commentary, by discussion of staging options offered by the text. The commentary is especially full and helpful, untangling many obscure words and phrases, illuminating sexual puns, and alerting the reader to Shakespeare's shaping of his source material in Plutarch's Lives.
Read more- Attentive to the play as theatre - gives detailed, illustrated account of the stage history
- This updated edition includes the new section 'Recent critical and stage interpretation', and an updated reading list
- Provides a full commentary
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: July 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521612876
- length: 302 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.48kg
- contains: 17 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
List of abbreviations and conventions
Introduction: Date and sources
The contrarieties of critical response
The ironic gap between word and deed
Transcending limits
Genre and structure
Style
Stagecraft
Antony and Cleopatra in performance
Recent critical and stage interpretations
Note on the text
List of characters
THE PLAY
Supplementary note
Textual analysis
Reading list.
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