Time | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Bell, Arthur H. “Time and Convention in Antony and Cleopatra.” Shakespeare Quarterly 24, no. 3 (Summer 1973): 253-64.
Suggests that as Antony tries to come to terms with the relentless demands of time, he vacillates between three conventional roles: the courtly lover, the Homeric hero, and the man of political prudence. In Bell's judgment, Shakespeare shows that neither the lover's escapism, the hero's pursuit of honor and reputation, nor the politician's pragmatism is a sufficient means of coping with the force that controls Antony's destiny.
Bennett, Robert B. “Four Stages of Time: The Shape of History in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy.” Shakespeare Studies 19 (1987): 61-85.
Focuses on Shakespeare's presentation of how time shapes human action and history, and discerns a cyclical, sacramental progression in Shakespeare’s second tetralogy from initial harmony between...
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