Antony and Cleopatra : authoritative text, sources, analogues, and contexts, criticism, adaptations, rewritings, and appropriations / edited by Ania Loomba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Contributor:

Loomba, Ania.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Norton critical edition

A Norton critical edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Antonius, Marcus.

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

Cleopatra.

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

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

Rome--History--Civil War, 43-31 B.C--Drama.

Rome.

Egypt--History--332-30 B.C--Drama.

Egypt.

Romans--Egypt--Drama.

Romans.

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

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation--History.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

History.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations--History and criticism.

Historical drama, English--History and criticism.

Historical drama, English.

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

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

Genre:

Drama.

Adaptations.

Tragedies.

Historical drama.

Physical Description:

xix, 365 pages: illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2011.

Summary:

William Shakespeare's great Roman tragedy of passion and political conflict is now available in a richly documented and illustrated Norton Critical Edition. This edition of Antony and Cleopatra is based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The volume includes a preface, detailed explanatory annotations of the text, two maps, and visuals ranging from a silver tetradrachm (34 BCE) to contemporary artwork inspired by the play. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Text of Antony and Cleopatra 1

Note On The Text 116

Sources, Analogues, and Contexts 123

Description of Egypt / Herodotus 125

Life of Antony / Plutarch 126

[Cleopatra and Dido] / Virgil 142

The Legend of Good Women / Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer, Geoffrey 146

The Tragedy of Antony / Robert Garnier Garnier, Robert, Mary Sidney Sidney, Mary 147

The Tragedy of Cleopatra / Samuel Daniel Daniel, Samuel 153

S'lve Deus Rex Jud'eorum / 'emilia Lanyer Lanyer, 'emilia 156

Early Modern Views Of Egyptians 157

From First Book of the Introduction of Knowledge / Andrew Boorde Boorde, Andrew 158

From A Brief Description of the Whole World / George Abbot Abbot, George 158

From The Geographical History of Africa / Joannes Leo Africanus Africanus, Joannes Leo 158

From Relation of a Journey Begun An. Dom. 1610 / George Sandys Sandys, George 159

Early Modern Views Of Gypsies 159

An Act against Certain Persons Calling Themselves Egyptians 160

From The Interpreter / John Cowell Cowell, John 160

From The Art of Jugling or Legerdemaine / Samuel Rid Rid, Samuel 161

Early Modern Writings On Women 161

From The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women / John Knox Knox, John 162

From The Anatomie of Abuses / Philip Stubbes Stubbes, Philip 162

From Hic mulier: or, The man-woman / Anonymous 163

Criticism 165

[The Busy Play] / Samuel Johnson Johnson, Samuel 167

[A Fiery Force] / Samuel Taylor Coleridge Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 167

[The Noble Play] / William Hazlitt Hazlitt, William 168

[The Real Cleopatra] / Anna Brownell Jameson Jameson, Anna Brownell 169

[The Dark Woman] / Frederick James Furnivall Furnivall, Frederick James 171

[Gipsy Queen] / Georg Brandes Brandes, Georg 172

[The Play Itself] / Bertolt Brecht Brecht, Bertolt 172

Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra / A. C. Bradley Bradley, A. C. 173

Tradition as Source in Antony and Cleopatra / Janet Adelman Adelman, Janet 180

Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1607): Virtus under Erasure / Jonathan Dollimore Dollimore, Jonathan 193

"Narcissus in thy face": Roman Desire and the Difference It Fakes in Antony and Cleopatra / Jonathan Gil Harris Harris, Jonathan Gil 203

[The "Other" Woman: Beauty, Women Writers, and Cleopatra] / Kim F. Hall Hall, Kim F. 219

Squeaking Cleopatras: Gender and Performance in Antony and Cleopatra / Juliet Dusinberre Dusinberre, Juliet 227

Shadowing Cleopatra / Carol Chillington Rutter Rutter, Carol Chillington 248

The Imperial Romance of Antony and Cleopatra / Ania Loomba Loomba, Ania 261

"Best Play with Mardian": Eunuch and Blackamoor as Imperial Culturegram / Anston Bosnian Bosnian, Anston 280

Barbers, Infidels, and Renegades: Antony and Cleopatra / Patricia Parker Parker, Patricia 289

Adaptations, Rewritings, and Appropriations 317

All for Love; or, The World Well Lost (1677) / John Dryden Dryden, John 319

Antony and Cleopatra (1858) / William Haines Lytle Lytle, William Haines 330

Cleopatra (1866) / Algernon Charles Swinburne Swinburne, Algernon Charles 332

Antony & Cleopatra; or, His-tory and Her-story in a Modern Nilo-metre (1866) / Francis Cowley Burnand Burnand, Francis Cowley 336

C'es'r 'nd Cleop'tr' (1901) / George Bernard Shaw Shaw, George Bernard 340

Antony and Cleopatra (1911) / Winston Stokes Stokes, Winston 342

After Reading "Antony and Cleopatra" (1918) / Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson, Robert Louis 350

The Death of Cleopatra (1927) / Ahmad Shawqi Shawqi, Ahmad 350

Cleopatra to the Asp (1970) / Ted Hughes Hughes, Ted 354

Cleopatra Topless (1973) / Robert Lowell Lowell, Robert 355

Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra (1987) / Barbara Chase-Riboud Chase-Riboud, Barbara 355

Antony and Cleopatra (2007) / Colleen McCullough McCullough, Colleen 358

Laxmi as Cleopatra (2010) / Tejal Shah Shah, Tejal 360.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780393930771

0393930777

OCLC:

601101705