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Antony and Cleopatra J. Turner

Antony and Cleopatra By J. Turner

Antony and Cleopatra by J. Turner


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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.

Antony and Cleopatra Summary

Antony and Cleopatra by J. Turner

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.

About J. Turner

NICHOLAS POTTER is Head of the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at Swansea Institute of Higher Education, UK. His previous publications include Shakespeare: Othello, also in the Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism series.

Table of Contents

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.

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GOR006623979
9781403990419
1403990417
Antony and Cleopatra by J. Turner
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Macmillan Education UK
2006-12-08
200
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