Antony And Cleopatra

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publisher Place: Cambridge.UK
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: Reprint

Description: 273 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In this edition of the play David Bevington shows how the theatrical design and imaginative vision of Antony and Cleopatra make it one of Shakespeares most remarkable tragedies. A substantial critical introduction synthesises the best criticism of the play and presents a fresh consideration of its erotic and political complexities. The edition is throughout attentive to the play as theatre: a detailed, illustrated account of the stage history is followed, in the commentary, by discussion of staging options offered by the text. The commentary is especially full and helpful, untangling many obscure words and phrases, illuminating sexual puns, and alerting the reader to Shakespeares shaping of his source material in Plutarchs Lives.

ISBN: 9780521272506