J. Turner, Nicholas Potter

Antony and Cleopatra

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Guide provides a critical survey of the responses to this popular play. Chronologically arranged, the book draws on a rich range of critical writings, including Dr Johnson, Coleridge, Bradley and Leavis. This material is linked to more general issues regarding Shakespearean criticism and scholarship, and the development of literary theory.

Produktdetails

• Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
• Verlag: Macmillan Education UK / Red Globe Press / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-9041-9
• 2006
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9781403990419
• ISBN-10: 1403990417
• Artikelnr.: 21689043

Autorenporträt

J. Turner

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'Like to a Vagabond Flag Upon a Stream': The Vagaries of Opinion Concerning Antony and Cleopatra.- 'Let's Do It After the High Roman Fashion': Shakespeare's Classical World.- Shakespeare's World Well Lost? Theatre in England During the Interregnum and After.- Dryden's Re-Vision of Antony and Cleopatra.- Romantics to Victorians: 'This enchanting Queen'.- Modernists: 'No more but e'en a woman'.- The Editions: 'The varying shore o' the world'.- The Romanness of the Roman Plays (1).- The Romanness of the Roman Plays (2).- Postmodernists: Antony and Cleopatra: 'A child o' the time'?.- Conclusion: 'Infinite Variety'?.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.- Index.