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The Oxford Shakespeare: Anthony and Cleopatra (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Oxford Shakespeare: Anthony and Cleopatra (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Oxford Shakespeare
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Written near the end of Shakespeare's most phenomenally creative
period, Antony and Cleopatra is perhaps the most ambitious of all
Shakespeare's designs, in its unmatched geographical and historial
sweep, its bold mingling of genres, and its extraordinary variety
of style, mood, and effect. Yet the degree and nature of its
success remain surprisingly contentious, and performances of the
play have seldom matched the extravagant expectations of its
admirers. The wideranging introduction to this new edition
considers the paradoxes of the play's reception from a number of
angles. A full discussion of Shakespeare's sources (the most
important of which is excerpted in a generous appendix) considers
ways in which these may have influenced the play's problematic
design. A comprehensive stage history illustrates how the
theatrical fortunes of Antony and Cleopatra continue to be affected
by the inappropriate spectacular traditions of nineteenth-century
staging, and by an enduring gender-inflected orientalism that has
particularly distorted responses to the character of Cleopatra. A
substantial critical section examines how the technique of the play
- its deliberate frustrations of expectation, its carefully
constructed tensions between rhetoric and action, and its daring
exploitation of bathos and anti-climax - may have contributed to
the sense of disappointment which colours so many accounts of
performance. The editor argues that such effects are structural to
the paradoxical vision of this tragedy and to its disturbed
preoccupation with the unstable boundaries of gender and identity.
The text has been freshly edited in accordance with the principles
of the series, and the extensive commentary is attentive to the
theatrical dimensions of the play as well as to the rich complexity
of its poetic language.
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