Antony and Cleopatra / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Neil Heims.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Heims, Neil.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Bloom's Shakespeare through the ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Antony and Cleopatra.

Shakespeare, William.

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C--In literature.

Cleopatra.

Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C--In literature.

Antonius, Marcus.

Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C.

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C.

Physical Description:

xii, 290 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2008]

Summary:

Shakespeare's multifaceted Antony and Cleopatra has been seen on one hand as a romance about the transcendence of love and on the other as a lesson against neglect of duty. This invaluable new study guide to one of Shakespeare's greatest plays contains a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries on Antony and Cleopatra, including commentaries by such important critics as John Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Northrop Frye, Anne Barton, and many others. Students will also benefit from the additional features in this volume, including an introduction by Harold Bloom, an accessible summary of the plot, an analysis of several key passages, a comprehensive list of characters, a biography of Shakespeare, essays discussing the main currents of criticism in each century since Shakespeare's time, and more.

Contents:

Biography of William Shakespeare 1

Summary of Antony and Cleopatra 5

Key Passages in Antony and Cleopatra 19

List of Characters in Antony and Cleopatra 41

Criticism Through the Ages 45

Antony and Cleopatra in the Seventeenth Century 47

1678 From the Preface to All for Love / John Dryden 49

1680 From "Address to Edward Tayler," in The Loyal General, a Tragedy / Nahum Tate 50

Antony and Cleopatra in the Eighteenth Century 53

1759 From "Some Remarks upon the New-revived Play of Antony and Cleopatra" / John Hill 54

1765 From "Notes on the Plays," in The Plays of William Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson 55

1774 From Bell's Edition of Shakespeare's Plays / Francis Gentleman 56

1784 From Dramatic Miscellanies / Thomas Davies 57

Antony and Cleopatra in the Nineteenth Century 59

1809 From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature / August Wilhelm von Schlegel 61

1817 From Characters of Shakespear's Plays / William Hazlitt 62

1818 From Shakspeare, with Introductory Remarks on Poetry, the Drama, and the Stage / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 66

1832 From Shakespeare's Heroines: Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, & Historical / Anna Murphy Brownell Jameson 67

1857 From Remarks on the Differences in Shakespeare's Versification in Different Periods of His Life / Charles Bathurst 69

1875 From Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art / Edward Dowden 71

1896 "The Dark Lady as a Model-The Fall of the Republic a World-Catastrophe," from William Shakespeare: A Critical Study / Georg Brandes 75

Antony and Cleopatra in the Twentieth Century 83

1901 From "Preface: Better than Shakespear?" from Three Plays for Puritans / George Bernard Shaw 85

1909 From "Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra," in Oxford Lectures on Poetry / A. C. Bradley 92

1931 "The Diadem of Love: An Essay on Antony and Cleopatra," from The Imperial Theme: Further Interpretations of Shakespeare's Tragedies Including the Roman Plays / G. Wilson Knight 110

1951 "Antony and Cleopatra," from The Meaning of Shakespeare / Harold C. Goddard 163

1972 "'Nature's Piece 'Gainst Fancy': The Divided Catastrophe in Antony and Cleopatra," from An Inaugural Lecture (to the Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature in the University of London tenable at Bedford College) / Anne Barton 188

1974 "The Significance of Style," from Shakespeare's Living Art / Rosalie L. Colie 205

1986 "Antony and Cleopatra," from Northrop Frye on Shakespeare / Northrop Frye 229

1988 "Enter a Messenger," from William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra / Laura Quinney 244

1988 "Introduction," from William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra / Harold Bloom 258

Antony and Cleopatra in the Twenty-first Century 263

2000 "Antony's 'Secret House of Death': Suicide and Sovereignty in Antony and Cleopatra," from Philological Quarterly / Jacqueline Vanhoutte 263.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-280) and index.

ISBN:

9780791096307

0791096300

OCLC:

191882097