William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 (Author). Quint, David, 1950- (Added Author).

Summary: "Each Longman Cultural edition consists of the complete text of a key literary work, supplemented by helpful annotations and followed by contextual materials that reveal the conversations and controversies of its historical movement." --back cover

Record details

ISBN: 0321198743
ISBN: 9780321198747
Physical Description: print
xxix, 273 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York : Pearson Longman, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-273).

Formatted Contents Note:

Antony and Cleopatra -- Contexts -- The historical background -- Classical writers on Mark Antony and Cleopatra -- The historians : Plutarch and Dio Cassius -- From life of Marcus Antonuis / Plutarch -- From Roman history, book 51 / Dio Cassius -- Three Augustan poets : Virgil, Horace, Propertius -- Aeneid 8.675-731 / Virgil -- Odes 1.37 / Horace -- Elegies 2.16 / Propertius -- Antony and Cleopatra on the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century stage -- From Cleopatra (1541-43) / Giovan Battista Giraldi Cinzio -- From Cleopatre captive (1553) / Estienne Jodelle -- From The Tragedie of Antonie (1590), translating Robert Garnier, Marc Antoine (1578) / Mary Sidney -- From The tragedy of Cleopatra (1594 and 1607) / Samuel Daniel -- A lost Antony and Cleopatra, from life of Sidney (1652) / Fulke Greville -- From Antony and Cleopatra (1677) / Charles Sedley -- From All for love or the world well lost (1678) / John Dryden -- The great critics on Antony and Cleopatra : Seblegel to Bradley -- From Lectures on dramatic literature (1809-11) / August Wilhelm Schlegel -- From Characters of Shakespear's plays (1817) / William Hazlitt -- From Characteristics of women, moral, poetical, historical (1832) / Anna Jameson -- From Oxford lectures on poetry (1905; pub. 1909) / A. C. Bradley.