Antony and Cleopatra -

William Shakespeare

Penguin Press

2015

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-13: 9780141396293

A tragedy of doomed love between an Egyptian queen and a ruler of Rome, William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra is edited by Emrys Jones with an introduction by René Weis in Penguin Shakespeare.

'Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows' bent'

A battle-hardened soldier, Antony is one of the three leaders of the Roman world. But he is also a man in the grip of an all-consuming passion for Cleopatra, the exotic and tempestuous queen of Egypt. And when their life of pleasure together is threatened by the encroaching politics of Rome, the conflict between love and duty has devastating consequences.

This book contains a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to Antony and Cleopatra, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary.

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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