Drama : Shakespeare

Shedding much-needed light on one of Shakespeare’s most intriguing and significant plays, this book features contributions from leading scholars who critically examine the play from a variety of perspectives. more...

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This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every act and scene. *****************. Antony and Cleopatra is a play by William Shakespeare, often considered a tragedy although this is debated and originally printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based or thought to be on Thomas North''s translation of Plutarch''s Life of Markus Antonius and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra''s suicide. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony''s fellow triumvirs and the future first emperor of Rome. The tragedy is a Roman play characterized by swift, panoramic shifts in geographical locations and in registers, alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome. Many consider the role of Cleopatra in this play one of the most complex female roles in Shakespeare''s work. She is frequently vain and histrionic, provoking an audience almost to scorn; at the same time, Shakespeare''s efforts invest both her and Antony with tragic grandeur. These contradictoryled to famously divided critical responses. — Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. . more...

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Penny Gay lookes at the way five of the comedies have been staged over the last fifty years, asking how gender politics affects production and how gender is represented, both in the text and on stage. more...

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As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, and its witty heroine Rosalind has his longest female role. In this edition, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. He examines Shakespeare's sources and elucidates the central themes of love, pastoral, and doubleness. Detailed annotations investigate the allusive and often bawdy language, enabling. student, actor, and director to savour the humour and the seriousness of the play to the full. - ;As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, and its witty heroine Rosalind has his longest female role. In this edition, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. He examines Shakespeare's sources and elucidates the central themes of love, pastoral, and doubleness. Detailed annotations investigate the allusive and often bawdy language, enabling. student, actor, and director to savour the humour and the seriousness of the play to the full. - more...

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This study suggests that Shakespeare's plays represent the pathos of our civilization with extraordinary force and clarity. His characters remain interesting because we recognize what they are going through. Shakespeare's contradictory understanding of the social and cultural past is examined. more...

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