Antony and Cleopatra

Name: Antony and Cleopatra
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780521272506

William Shakespeare

15/11/1990
Cambridge University Press

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Antony and Cleopatra par William Shakespeare

Résumé

In this edition of the play David Bevington shows how the theatrical design and imaginative vision of Antony and Cleopatra make it one of Shakespeare's most remarkable tragedies. A substantial critical introduction synthesises the best criticism of the play and presents a fresh consideration of its erotic and political complexities. The edition is throughout attentive 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.