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Antony and Cleopatra: Language and Writing (Paperback)
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Antony and Cleopatra: Language and Writing (Paperback)
Series: Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing
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Loot Price R595
Discovery Miles 5 950
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Reading Antony and Cleopatra is particularly challenging because of
Shakespeare's masterful embodiment of Rome and Egypt's contrasting
worlds in language, structure, and characterization. Instead of
seeing the interaction of Roman and Egyptian perspectives in Antony
and Cleopatra as a type of double image of reality that changes as
one moves from one location to another, students often find
themselves compelled to pick sides. The more romantic opt for
Cleopatra as the most sympathetic character, while the pragmatists
dismiss her lifestyle as self-indulgent. The central challenge in
reading this play, in other words, is to resist the compulsion to
take sides and, instead, to adopt a 'both-and' point of view rather
than an 'either-or' choice. The play's central binary - Rome vs.
Egypt - is deeply embedded in its language and structure, yet the
play consistently complicates our view of either side. The book
encourages students to think outside the binary box, to understand,
and to celebrate, Shakespeare's exploitation of the multivalent
nature of language. As well as helping students to analyse the
intricacy of Shakespeare's language in Antony and Cleopatra, each
chapter's 'Writing matters' section enables students to develop
their own writing strategies in coursework and examinations.
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