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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823050703321

Titolo

Antony and Cleopatra : new critical essays / / edited by Sara Munson Deats

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-88789-6

1-135-88790-X

1-280-10013-3

0-203-30794-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

Shakespeare criticism ; ; v. 30

Altri autori (Persone)

DeatsSara Munson

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

Egypt In literature

Rome In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Shakespeare's anamorphic drama : a survey of Antony and Cleopatra in criticism, on stage, and on screen / Sara Munson Deats -- Above the element they lived in : the visual language in Antony and Cleopatra, acts 4 and 5  / David Bevington -- Passion and politics : Antony and Cleopatra in performance / David Fuller -- Cleopatra's sati : old ideologies and modern staging / Dorothea Kehler -- High events as these : sources, influences, and the artistry of Antony and Cleopatra / Robert A. Logan -- Rome and Egypt in Antony and Cleopatra and in criticism of the play / James Hirsh -- He beats thee gainst the odds : gambling, risk management, and Antony and Cleopatra / Linda Woodbridge -- Cloyless sauce : the pleasurable politics of food in Antony and Cleopatra / Peter A. Parolin -- Cleopatra and the myth of Scota /   Lisa Hopkins -- Immortal longings : the erotics of death in Antony and Cleopatra / Lisa Starks -- Sleep, epic, and romance in Antony and Cleopatra / Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. -- The allusive tissue of Antony and Cleopatra / Leeds Barroll -- O'repicturing apelles : Shakespeare's paragone with painting in Antony and Cleopatra / Marguerite A. Tassi -- Interview with Giles Block, director of the 1999 production of Antony and Cleopatra at Shakespeare's Globe in London /



Georgia E. Brown.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of twenty original essays will expand the critical contexts in which Antony and Cleopatra can be enjoyed as both literature and theater.