Antony and Cleopatra: A Critical Reader

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Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: - Essays on the plays critical and performance history - A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play - A selection of new essays by leading scholars - A survey of resources to direct students further reading about the play in print and online Antony and Cleopatra is among Shakespeares most enduringly popular tragedies. A theatrical piece of extraordinary political power, it also features one of his most memorable couples. Both intellectually and emotionally challenging, Antony and Cleopatra also tests the boundaries of theatrical representation. This volume offers a stimulating and accessible guide to the play that takes stock of the past and current situation of scholarship while simultaneously opening up fresh, thought-provoking critical perspectives.

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Drawing on his enduring engagement with the persistence and significance of Rome the city, the culture, the myth in the early modern English world, Lovascio sets out to take a fresh look at Antony and Cleopatra. - Iolanda Plescia, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, Memoria di Shakespeare

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Domenico Lovascio is Researcher in English Literature at the University of Genoa, Italy.