Oxford Schools Shakespeare

Oxford Schools Shakespeare PDF Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198393344
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Antony and Cleopatra is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists and classroom notes.

Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra PDF Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
Now available in beautiful World's Classics editions--with handsome, four-color covers and new low prices--The Oxford Shakespeare offers new and authoritative edions of Shakespeare's plays. In each volume, an introductory essay provides all relevant background information together with an appraisal of critical views and the play's performance history. In addition, the detailed commentaries pay particular attention to the language and staging. These editions are perfect for all readers, whether actors needing stage directions, students desiring comprehensive (yet inobtrusive) notes, or the reader of classic literature returning to the Bard's timeless writings.The most formally ambitious and poetically brilliant of Shakespeare's tragedies, Anthony and Cleopatra is also one of his most critically contentious plays in terms of the degree and nature of its success. Always alert to the play's theatricality and boldly experimental design, the wide-ranging introduction offers a fresh critical account of the play, exploring its paradoxical treatment of gender and identity as well as the rich complexity and tensions of its much-loved poetic language. With a generous appendix of Shakespeare's source materials, this edition also offers a full stage history.

Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra PDF Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198320579
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Presents the text of "Antony and Cleopatra, "which dramatizes the ill-fated affair between Mark Antony, one of the triumvirs of the Roman Empire, and Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt, and includes introductory and textual notes, character lists and studies, a synopsis, teaching tools and suggestions, historical background, and biographical information about Shakespeare

Anthony and Cleopatra

Anthony and Cleopatra PDF Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1306

Book Description
New Shakespeare, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary.

Oxford Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra

Oxford Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Bartleby.com, Inc. presents the full text of the play "Antony and Cleopatra," as part of the full text of the 1914 Oxford edition of the "Complete Works of William Shakespeare." "Antony and Cleopatra" was written in 1606-1607 by English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra

The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra PDF Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192834256
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
This reissue of this popular Shakespeare classic features a New Overview of Shakespeare's works by Sylvan Barnet, former Chairman of the English Department at Tufts University; an updated bibliography; suggested references; and stage and film history. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra

The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra PDF Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: London : French
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
Now available in beautiful World's Classics editions--with handsome, four-color covers and new low prices--The Oxford Shakespeare offers new and authoritative edions of Shakespeare's plays. In each volume, an introductory essay provides all relevant background information together with an appraisal of critical views and the play's performance history. In addition, the detailed commentaries pay particular attention to the language and staging. These editions are perfect for all readers, whether actors needing stage directions, students desiring comprehensive (yet inobtrusive) notes, or the reader of classic literature returning to the Bard's timeless writings.The most formally ambitious and poetically brilliant of Shakespeare's tragedies, Anthony and Cleopatra is also one of his most critically contentious plays in terms of the degree and nature of its success. Always alert to the play's theatricality and boldly experimental design, the wide-ranging introduction offers a fresh critical account of the play, exploring its paradoxical treatment of gender and identity as well as the rich complexity and tensions of its much-loved poetic language. With a generous appendix of Shakespeare's source materials, this edition also offers a full stage history.

Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity

Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity PDF Author: Colin Burrow
Publisher: Oxford Shakespeare Topics
ISBN: 0199684782
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
This book explains for students and scholars the nature and extent of Shakespeare's classical learning. It shows why Ben Jonson was wrong to claim that he had 'small Latin and less Greek', and demonstrates that Shakespeare acquired the central foundations of his art from his classical reading. It explores in detail his relationship to Virgil, Ovid, Plautus, Terence, Seneca, and Plutarch, as well as showing how his beliefs about and attitudes towards classicalliterature changed in the course of his career.
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