A Contextual Guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
History, Myth, Gender
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 28 February 2026
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781474494267
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 47 black & white illustrations and 4 family trees 700
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Short description:
This contextual guide to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra highlights the ways in which the play was shaped by an interplay of political, cultural and social influences, existing in and beyond the playhouse.
MoreLong description:
Employing commentary on the play’s main themes, coupled with an editorial apparatus that connects selected primary texts (from Ovid to Montaigne) with Shakespeare’s great tragedy, Jyotsna G. Singh and Daniel Vitkus guide the reader through a series of fascinating readings that serve to reconstruct the intellectual and artistic world of Antony and Cleopatra through varied perspectives. This includes chapters on History and Prophecy; Myth; Geography; Gender, Desire, and Eroticism; Theatricality, Festivity, and Spectacle; and Emblematic Perspectives; followed by a Coda describing and analysing some 'Afterlives' of the play on the modern stage. Through their exposure to these thematic frameworks, readers will come to understand more clearly the interpretive possibilities offered by Antony and Cleopatra as a complex and masterful work of art.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Figures
About this Volume
Acknowledgements
Chronology: Key Historical Events, 82–19 BCE
Family Trees: Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Octavius Caesar, Pompey
Introduction. Infinite Variety: A Contextual Guide to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
1. History and Prophecy
2. Myth
3. Geography
4. Gender, Desire, Eroticism
5. Theatricality, Festivity, Spectacle
6. Emblematic Perspectives
Coda. Antony and Cleopatra's Afterlives
Bibliography
Index
