Anthony and Cleopatra (Oxford Shakespeare Series)

by William Shakespeare, Michael Neill (Editor)

Overview

Now available in beautiful World's Classics editions—with handsome, four-color covers and new low prices—The Oxford Shakespeare offers new and authoritative edions of Shakespeare's plays. In each volume, an introductory essay provides all relevant background information together with an appraisal of critical views and the play's performance history. In addition, the detailed commentaries pay particular attention to the language and staging. These editions are perfect for all readers, whether actors needing stage directions, students desiring comprehensive (yet inobtrusive) notes, or the reader of classic literature returning to the Bard's timeless writings.
The most formally ambitious and poetically brilliant of Shakespeare's tragedies, Anthony and Cleopatra is also one of his most critically contentious plays in terms of the degree and nature of its success. Always alert to the play's theatricality and boldly experimental design, the wide-ranging introduction offers a fresh critical account of the play, exploring its paradoxical treatment of gender and identity as well as the rich complexity and tensions of its much-loved poetic language. With a generous appendix of Shakespeare's source materials, this edition also offers a full stage history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199535781
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/15/2008
Series:	The ^AOxford Shakespeare
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	176,658
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	15 - 18 Years

About the Author

Michael Neill is Associate Professor of English at Aukland University.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	viii
	Chronology of Historical Events	x
	Introduction	1
	Reception	1
	Sources	5
	Date and Publication	20
	The Play in Performance	23
	Interpretation	67
	The Pattern of Anticlimax	67
	The Dislocation of Identity	78
	The Play of Perspective: Enobarbus as Choric Fool	89
	The Rhythms of Nostalgia	94
	The Reach of Paradox: Doing and Undoing (1)	100
	Gender and Self-Loss	107
	The Properties of the Self	112
	Finis coronat opus: Doing and Undoing (2)	123
	Editorial Procedures	131
	Abbreviations and References	137
	Anthony And Cleopatra	143
Appendix A	The Life of Marcus Antonius	327
Appendix B	A Note on the Staging of 4.16 and 5.2	363
Appendix C	A Note on Pronoun Usage	368
Appendix D	A Note on Lineation	370
	Index	379