This new edition of Shakespeare's classic love story, developed by and for the RSC, includes new interviews with acclaimed directors Adrian Noble, Gregory Doran and Braham Murray, looks at specific productions in the play's history, and a ...
Included in this edition are interviews with three leading directors – Adrian Noble, Braham Murray and Gregory Doran – providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible.
The London production was studied by Renzo Ricci , and to an extent imitated in his 1953 production at the Teatro Eliseo , Rome , with Eva Magni and Nando Gazzolo . Glen Byam Shaw's second , and more significant , production of Antony ...
For this second edition of Antony and Cleopatra, David Bevington has included in his introductory section a thorough consideration of recent critical and stage interpretations, demonstrating how the theatrical design and imagination of this ...
Presents Shakespeare's romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, along with scene-by-scene analysis, commentary on past and current productions, and an overview of Shakespeare's theatrical career.
Southern has a flair for this kind of narrative-history-with-argument, but she has already written extensively on both Antony and Cleopatra as well as Caesar, and for those who have read those earlier books there will be little new here.
Thomas Lodge , 1602 ; Dio Cassius , Roman History , Book xlix , chap . 32 ; Propertius , Elegies , Book III , Elegy 9. See J. Leeds Barroll , ' Shakespeare and Roman history ' , MLR 53 ( 1958 ) , 327-43 , and Marilyn L. Williamson ...
This Guide provides a critical survey of the responses to this popular play. Chronologically arranged, the book draws on a rich range of critical writings, including Dr Johnson, Coleridge, Bradley and Leavis.
... 1952) Dickey, Franklin M., Not Wisely But Too Well: Shakespeare's Love Tragedies (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1957) Farnham, Willard, Shakespeare's Tragic Frontier: The World of His Final SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY.
... 93 unities, the dramatic, 97 Varrius (character), 33–4 Ventidius (character), 34, 40, 47–9 Venus see Cleopatra as Veronese, 120 Walker, Lewis, 165 Walker, Lynne, 136, 138 Walsh, Everal A., 139 Wardle, Irving, 121–2 Wells, Charles, ...
Look , prithee , Charmian , How this herculean Roman does become The carriage of his chafe . ANTONY I'll leave you , lady . CLEOPATRA Courteous lord , one word . Sir , you and I must part , but that's not it ; Sir , you and I have loved ...
The extent of Shakespeare's debt to it can be gleaned from a number of source studies, including T. J. B. Spencer's Shakespeare's Plutarch (1964) and volume V of Geoffrey Bullough's Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (1964).
Hinman, Charlton. The Norton Facsimile: The First Folio of Shakespeare. 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996. This facsimile presents a photographic reproduction of an ``ideal'' copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare; Hinman attempts to ...
Presents Shakespeare's classic tragedy of romance and ambition in the story of Cleopatra and Marc Antony.
His introduction and commentary, presented alongside the New Cambridge edition of the text, provide the most detailed, extensive and up-to-date history of the play on stage and screen, in and beyond Britain.
1103 Bacchanals : riotous dances celebrating Bacchus , the Roman god of wine . 1105 ha't : get on with it . Pompey 95 This is not yet an Alexandrian feast . Antony It ripens towards it . Strike the vessels , ho ! Here's to Caesar !
This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers pick up the play's themes of desire and delinquency, exoticism and erotic politics to locate the most ambituous love ...
Part of The New Penguin Shakespeare series, this text looks at Romeo and Juliet with an introduction, a list of further reading, commentary and a short account of the textual...
The epic story of one of the most famous love affairs in history, by the bestselling author of Caesar.
In this dual biography of the two great lovers of antiquity, historian Adrian Goldsworthy goes beyond myth and romance to create a portrait of his subjects--who were first and foremost political animals.