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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
02.09.2027
Herausgeber
Heather James + weitereVerlag
Bloomsbury AcademicSeitenzahl
272
Maße (L/B/H)
19.8/12.9/2.5 cm
Gewicht
454 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-350-65444-0
This volume brings together new work on the play Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's geographically sprawling, erotic, epic tragedy, whose titular lovers are the losers in Rome's transition from republic to empire.
Antony and Cleopatra, four centuries later, still thrills readers and audiences, featuring Shakespeare's most engaging and provoking tragic heroine, his greatest meditation on the Roman empire, his only extended depiction of Africa, and one of his most sustained attempts to make the plots and concerns of ancient classical literature resonate in early modern England. This collection of essays reveals why Antony and Cleopatra is essential for students, teachers, and theatre practitioners today. Contributors address the play's imaginations of race, how it updated and made classical material relevant in early modern England, its position among other representations of Egypt on the early modern stage, its critical and editorial afterlives, its ideas about the body, its representations of gender and sexuality, and its theories of history. Essays combine innovative critical approaches with traditional scholarly methods. On the one hand, some contributions take up old questions - like the play's engagement with Latin literature - from new angles, while other contributions emerge from novel areas like food studies, critical race studies and masculinity studies.Noch keine Bewertungen vorhanden
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