Anthony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

Publié par Oxford University Press English Language Teacher, le 01 avril 2008

388 pages

Résumé

In its towering central characters, vast geographical and historical sweep, and its variety of style and mood, Antony and Cleopatra is perhaps the most ambitious of Shakespeare's designs. Yet the degree and nature of its success remain surprisingly contentious, and performances of the play have seldom matched the extravagant expectations of its admirers. Michael Neill's wide-ranging introduction from a number of angles, including those of gender and race. He examines the sources and discusses the theatrical challenge presented by Shakespeare's technique, with its extraordinary tensions between rhetoric and action. A full