Anthony and Cleopatra -

William Shakespeare

Oxford University Press

2008

400 páginas

13h 20m

ISBN-13: 9780199535781

Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Marcus 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 triumviri 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.

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"A. C. Bradley considered only four of Shakespeare's characters to be 'inexaustible': Hamlet, Cleopatra, Falstaff, and Iago. (...) Of Shakepearean representations of women, Cleopatra's is the most subtle and formidable, by universal consent. Critics never can agree on very much about her: Shakespeare's control of the various perspectives on her is so astute in this play, more perhaps than in any other, that the audience is given an enigmatic range of possible judgments and interpretations. Since Anthony clearly does not understand her, are we likely to do any better?"

Harold Bloom: Shakespeare - The Invention of The Human, c. 27