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Frederick Turner (essay date 1999)

SOURCE: Turner, Frederick. “The Invention of Value: Shakespeare's Fatal Cleopatra.” In Fortier, Feliciter, Fideliter: Centennial Lectures of the Graduate School of the University of Southwestern Louisiana, edited by Lewis Pyenson, pp. 19-63. Lafayette: Graduate School, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1999.

[In the following essay, Turner examines the theme of creativity in Antony and Cleopatra. The critic devotes particular attention to the relationship between Antony and Cleopatra; their attempt to devise a new world that, in contrast to the Roman one, would be unpredictable and self-generating; and the rhetorical figures, especially of hyperbole and paradox, that underscore the motif of emerging life.]

I. THE LABORATORY OF CREATION

At the core of Shakespeare's economic theory is a radical vision of the world as spontaneously generating order, structure, and value in a...

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1. Introduction
2. Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
   1. Frederick Turner (essay date 1999)
   2. Ania Loomba (essay date 2002)
3. Criticism: Character Studies
   1. Jacqueline Vanhoutte (essay date spring 2000)
   2. Cristina León Alfar (essay date 2003)
4. Criticism: Production Reviews
   1. David Murray (review date 22 October 1998)
   2. Kate Kellaway (review date 30 October 1998)
   3. Alastair Macaulay (review date 3 August 1999)
   4. Katherine Duncan-Jones (review date 6 August 1999)
   5. Ian Shuttleworth (review date 21 January 2000)
   6. Alastair Macaulay (review date 25 April 2002)
5. Criticism: Themes
   1. John Michael Archer (essay date spring-summer 1994)
   2. Arthur Lindley (essay date 2003)
6. Further Reading
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