The Critical Reception of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra from 1607 to 1905
Author: Michael Steppat
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1980-01-01
Total Pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9789060321881
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Antony and Cleopatra
Author: Bridget Escolme
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2006-03-29
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0230804233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook offers a way in to reading Anthony and Cleopatra theatrically. Through analyses of key productions, an account of the historical conditions in which the play was first produced, and a scene-by-scene account of how the play might be approached in performance, this book focuses on the challenges of staging the notorious lovers.
Antony and Cleopatra
Author: Marga Munkelt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2024-04-04
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1350321443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition series increases our knowledge of how Antony and Cleopatra has been received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume provides, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, and the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. This volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century.
Antony and Cleopatra
Author: Sara M. Deats
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 113588790X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of twenty original essays will expand the critical contexts in which Antony and Cleopatra can be enjoyed as both literature and theater.
The Masks of Anthony and Cleopatra
Author: Marvin Rosenberg
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9780874139242
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In his analysis, Marvin Rosenberg sets out to steer a path between the "extremes" of Rome and Egypt and all they stand for: and to explore the relentless "to and back" confrontation of their different sets of values which leads ultimately to destruction."
Antony and Cleopatra
Author: Yashdip S. Bains
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 1134819706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a comprehensive overview of scholarship on this play. It includes chapters on criticism, sources and background, textual studies, bibliographies, editions, and translations. Also covered are the stage history and major productions of the play, and films, music, television, and adaptations and synopses.
Shakespeare's Tragedies
Author: Dieter Mehl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780521316903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwelve plays are examined individually regarding their origins, stage and critical histories and the problems associated with their categorization as tragedy.
Cleopatra
Author: Francine Prose
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2022-01-01
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0300256671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy "A lucid and persuasive reinterpretation. Readers won't see Cleopatra the same way again."--Publishers Weekly "Where Prose really sparkles: her critiques of the cultural depictions of Cleopatra."--Allison Arieff, San Francisco Chronicle The siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to see Caesar, Cleopatra is a figure shrouded in myth. Beyond the legends immortalized by Plutarch, Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, and others, there are no journals or letters written by Cleopatra herself. All we have to tell her story are words written by others. What has it meant for our understanding of Cleopatra to have had her story told by writers who had a political agenda, authors who distrusted her motives, and historians who believed she was a liar? Francine Prose delves into ancient Greek and Roman literary sources, as well as modern representations of Cleopatra in art, theater, and film, to challenge narratives driven by orientalism and misogyny and offer a new interpretation of Cleopatra's history through the lens of our current era.
Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England
Author: John S. Garrison
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-11-19
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1317548884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together two vibrant areas of Renaissance studies today: memory and sexuality. The contributors show that not only Shakespeare but also a broad range of his contemporaries were deeply interested in how memory and sexuality interact. Are erotic experiences heightened or deflated by the presence of memory? Can a sexual act be commemorative? Can an act of memory be eroticized? How do forms of romantic desire underwrite forms of memory? To answer such questions, these authors examine drama, poetry, and prose from both major authors and lesser-studied figures in the canon of Renaissance literature. Alongside a number of insightful readings, they show that sonnets enact a sexual exchange of memory; that epics of nationhood cannot help but eroticize their subjects; that the act of sex in Renaissance tragedy too often depends upon violence of the past. Memory, these scholars propose, re-shapes the concerns of queer and sexuality studies – including the unhistorical, the experience of desire, and the limits of the body. So too does the erotic revise the dominant trends of memory studies, from the rhetoric of the medieval memory arts to the formation of collective pasts.
English Translation and Classical Reception
Author: Stuart Gillespie
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-05-06
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1405199016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary history to bear on questions about the reception of classical literary texts, and vice versa. The text draws on the author’s exhaustive knowledge of the subject from the early Renaissance to the present. The first book-length study of English translation as a topic in classical reception Draws on the author’s exhaustive knowledge of English literary translation from the early Renaissance to the present Argues for a remapping of English literary history which would take proper account of the currently neglected history of classical translation, from Chaucer to the present Offers a widely ranging chronological analysis of English translation from ancient literatures Previously little-known, unknown, and sometimes suppressed translated texts are recovered from manuscripts and explored in terms of their implications for English literary history and for the interpretation of classical literature
