Antony And Cleopatra A Critical Reader

Author : Domenico Lovascio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350049918

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Antony and Cleopatra: A Critical Reader by Domenico Lovascio Pdf

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: - Essays on the play's critical and performance history - A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play - A selection of new essays by leading scholars - A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online Antony and Cleopatra is among Shakespeare's most enduringly popular tragedies. A theatrical piece of extraordinary political power, it also features one of his most memorable couples. Both intellectually and emotionally challenging, Antony and Cleopatra also tests the boundaries of theatrical representation. This volume offers a stimulating and accessible guide to the play that takes stock of the past and current situation of scholarship while simultaneously opening up fresh, thought-provoking critical perspectives.

Author : Sara M. Deats
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781135887902

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Antony and Cleopatra by Sara M. Deats Pdf

This collection of twenty original essays will expand the critical contexts in which Antony and Cleopatra can be enjoyed as both literature and theater.

Author : Marga Munkelt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350321441

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Antony and Cleopatra by Marga Munkelt Pdf

This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition series increases our knowledge of how Antony and Cleopatra has been received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume provides, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, and the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. This volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century.

Author : A. P. Riemer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002597339

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A Reading of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra by A. P. Riemer Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0868772186

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Antony and Cleopatra by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nick Potter,Nicholas Potter
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403990419

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Antony and Cleopatra by Nick Potter,Nicholas Potter Pdf

This Reader's Guide provides a critical survey of the responses to this popular play, from the earliest published accounts to the present day. Leading the reader through the material in a chronological fashion, the book draws on a rich range of critical writings, including Dr. Johnson, Coleridge, Bradley, and Leavis. Nicholas Potter carefully relates this material to more general issues regarding Shakespearean criticism and scholarship, and the development of literary history and theory.

Author : Andrew James Hartley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474220392

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Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader by Andrew James Hartley Pdf

This volume offers a practical, accessible and thought-provoking guide to this Roman tragedy, surveying its major themes and critical reception. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play's performance, beginning with its earliest known staging in 1599, including an analysis of the 2013 film Caesar Must Die starring Italian inmates, and an assessment of why the play is now coming back into vogue on stage. Moving through to four new critical essays, it opens up cutting-edge perspectives on the work, and finishes with a guide to pedagogical approaches by the experienced teacher and leading academic Jeremy Lopez. Detailing web-based and production-related resources, and including an annotated bibliography of critical works, the guide will equip teachers and facilitate students' understanding of this challenging play.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0393930777

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Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare Pdf

William Shakespeare's great Roman tragedy of adultery amid political conflict is now available in a richly documented and illustrated Norton Critical Edition.

Author : Henry N. Hudson
Publisher : Trieste Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0649111435

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Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. with Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Critical. for Use in Schools and Families by Henry N. Hudson Pdf

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, photographs, or missing pages. It is highly unlikely that this would occur with one of our books. Our extensive quality control ensures that the readers of Trieste Publishing's books will be delighted with their purchase. Our staff has thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the collection, repairing, or if necessary, rejecting titles that are not of the highest quality. This process ensures that the reader of one of Trieste Publishing's titles receives a volume that faithfully reproduces the original, and to the maximum degree possible, gives them the experience of owning the original work.We pride ourselves on not only creating a pathway to an extensive reservoir of books of the finest quality, but also providing value to every one of our readers. Generally, Trieste books are purchased singly - on demand, however they may also be purchased in bulk. Readers interested in bulk purchases are invited to contact us directly to enquire about our tailored bulk rates.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1079886990

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Antony And Cleopatra by William Shakespeare Pdf

Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623.The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Markus 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 triumvirs 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. Many consider the role of Cleopatra in this play one of the most complex female roles in Shakespeare's work. She is frequently vain and histrionic, provoking an audience almost to scorn; at the same time, Shakespeare's efforts invest both her and Antony with tragic grandeur. These contradictory features have led to famously divided critical responses.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472517401

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Macbeth: A Critical Reader by Anonim Pdf

ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars provide invaluable insights into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: Essays on the play's critical and performance history A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online Regularly performed and studied, Macbeth is not only one of Shakespeare's most popular plays but also provides us with one of the literary canon's most compellingly conflicted tragic figures. This guide offers fresh new ways into the play.

Author : Lars Engle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993-11-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0226209423

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Shakespearean Pragmatism by Lars Engle Pdf

Just as Shakespeare's theater was an economic gamble, subject to the workings of a market, so the plays themselves submit actions, persons, and motives to an audience's judgment. Such a theatrical economy, Lars Engle suggests, provides a model for the way in which truth is determined and assessed in the world at large—a model much like that offered by contemporary pragmatism. To Engle, the problems of worth, price, and value that appear so frequently in Shakespeare's works reveal a playwright dramatizing the negotiable nature of perception and belief—in short, the nature of his audience's purchase on reality. This innovative argument is the first to view Shakespeare in the context of contemporary pragmatism and to show that Shakespeare in many ways anticipated pragmatism as it has been developed in the thought of Richard Rorty, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, and others. With detailed reference to the sonnets and plays, Engle explores Shakespeare's tendency to treat knowledge, truth, and certainty as relatively stable goods within a theatrical economy of social interaction. He shows the playwright recasting kingship, aristocracy, and poetic immortality in pragmatic terms. As attentive to history as it is to contemporary theory, this book mediates between current and traditional accounts of Shakespeare. In doing so, it offers a sweeping new account of Shakespeare's enterprise that will interest philosophers, literary theorists, and Shakespeare scholars alike.

Author : Robert DiYanni,Anton Borst
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119154860

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Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 1 by Robert DiYanni,Anton Borst Pdf

Powerful strategies, tools, and techniques for educators teaching students critical reading skills in the humanities. Every educator understands the importance of teaching students how to read critically. Even the best teachers, however, find it challenging to translate their own learned critical reading practices into explicit strategies for their students. Critical Reading Across the Curriculum: Humanities, Volume 1 presents exceptional insight into what educators require to facilitate critical and creative thinking skills. Written by scholar-educators from across the humanities, each of the thirteen essays in this volume describes strategies educators have successfully executed to develop critical reading skills in students studying the humanities. These include ways to help students: focus actively re-read and reflect, to re-think, and re-consider understand the close relationship between reading and writing become cognizant of the critical importance of context in critical reading and of making contextual connections learn to ask the right questions in critical reading and reasoning appreciate reading as dialogue, debate, and engaged conversation In addition, teachers will find an abundance of innovative exercises and activities encouraging students to practice their critical reading skills. These can easily be adapted for and applied across many disciplines and course curricula in the humanities. The lifelong benefits of strong critical reading skills are undeniable. Students with properly developed critical reading skills are confident learners with an enriched understanding of the world around them. They advance academically and are prepared for college success. This book arms educators (librarians, high school teachers, university lecturers, and beyond) with the tools to teach a most paramount lesson.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 133278156X

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Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare Pdf

Excerpt from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra: With Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Critical Knight and Verplanck argue that Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra was not written till after the date of Blount's entry, and that this entry referred to some other perform ance 3 their main reason being the admitted fact that the style of this play bespeaks the Poet's highest maturity of mind. I agree, however, with Malone and Collier in as signing the composition to 1607, or the early part of 1608, when the author was in his forty-fourth year. This brings it within the same five years of his life, from 1605 to 1610, which witnessed the production of Macon}; and King Lear. It will hardly be questioned that at the time of writing these dramas the Poet's mind was equal to any achievement within the compass of human thought. Nor can I taste any pecu liarities of style in this play, as distinguished from the proper tokens of dramatic power, that should needs infer any more ripeness of mind than in case of the other dramas of that penod. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081815031

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The Record of a Reading Club by Anonim Pdf