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Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra By William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare


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In no other play has Shakespeare created two such equally titanic personages as Rome's great soldier and statesman Mark Antony and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. The story of their irresistible attraction, their jealous quarrels, and the effects on friends and subjects of their ruinous choices is a tale leading irretrievably to despair and defeat.

Antony and Cleopatra Summary

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

The Annotated Shakespeare series enables today's readers to understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist. Comprehensive on-page annotations assist with vocabulary, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines in these handsome and affordable paperback editions.

In no other play has Shakespeare created two such equally titanic personages as Rome's great soldier and statesman Mark Antony and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. The story of their irresistible attraction, their jealous quarrels and betrayals, and the effects on friends and subjects of their ruinous choices is a tale leading irretrievably to despair and defeat. Their suicides, however, strike us as a kind of triumph. Shakespeare stood at the height of his powers when he penned this great tragedy, one of the last he produced.

About William Shakespeare

Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Emeritus and professor of English emeritus, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Among his many edited and translated publications are Poems and Prose from the Old English, Cliges, Lancelot, Perceval, Erec and Enide, and Yvain, all published by Yale University Press. Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University, is the author of many books, including his new volume Fallen Angels, published by Yale University Press (see page 14).

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CIN0300124732G
9780300124736
0300124732
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Used - Good
Paperback
Yale University Press
2007-11-02
256
N/A
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