Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra Criticism

• Antony and Cleopatra (Vol. 58)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Mark Antony and the Tournament of Life
    • Blessed When They Were Riggish: Shakespeare's Cleopatra and Christianity's Penitent Prostitutes
    • That I Might Hear Thee Call Great Caesar ‘Ass Unpolicied’
    • ‘The World's Great Snare’: Antony, Cleopatra, and Game
    • Transmigrations: Crossing Regional and Gender Boundaries in Antony and Cleopatra
  • Criticism: Polarities
    • Erotic Irony and Polarity in Antony and Cleopatra
    • 'Courtiers of Beauteous Freedom': Antony and Cleopatra in Its Time
    • Antony and Cleopatra: The Narrative Construction of the Other
    • The Stillness and the Dance
  • Criticism: Renaissance Emblems And Iconography
    • ‘To the Very Heart of Loss’: Renaissance Iconography in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
    • Temperance and the End of Time: Emblematic Antony and Cleopatra
  • Further Reading
• Antony and Cleopatra (Vol. 70)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Shakespeare's Octavius and Elizabethan Roman History
    • ‘As I Am Egypt's Queen’: Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, and the Female Body Politic
    • Cleopatra and the Sexualization of Race
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Wanton Self-Destruction
    • Shakespeare Performed: Roman Actors and Egyptian Transvestites
    • Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon: Summer and Winter, 1999-2000
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Dramatic Irony in Antony and Cleopatra
    • The Comic Pattern and Vision in Antony and Cleopatra
    • Individuation and Development of Character through Language in Antony and Cleopatra
    • Antony and Cleopatra: The Significance of Style
    • ‘The rack dislimns’: Schema and Metaphorical Pattern in Antony and Cleopatra
  • Further Reading
• Antony and Cleopatra (Vol. 81)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Cleopatra's Tragedy
    • The Messengers in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
    • The Queen's Two Bodies and the Divided Emperor: Some Problems of Identity in Antony and Cleopatra
    • Representing Cleopatra
    • ‘The Sword Phillipan’: Female Power, Maternity, and Genderbending in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Review of Antony and Cleopatra
    • Review of Antony and Cleopatra
    • Review of Antony and Cleopatra
    • Review of Antony and Cleopatra
    • Review of Antony and Cleopatra
    • Review of Antony and Cleopatra
  • Criticism: Themes
    • ‘New Heaven, New Earth’: The Escape from Mutability in Antony and Cleopatra
    • Presence and Oblivion
    • Absence and Subversion: The ‘O'erflow’ of Gender in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
    • Shakespeare's Politics of Loyalty: Sovereignty and Subjectivity in Antony and Cleopatra
    • Enthroned in the Marketplace: The Carnivalesque in Antony and Cleopatra
    • The Secondary Role: The Vision of Master and Servant in Antony and Cleopatra
  • Further Reading
• Antony and Cleopatra (Vol. 91)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • The Invention of Value: Shakespeare's Fatal Cleopatra
    • The Imperial Romance of Antony and Cleopatra
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Antony's ‘Secret House of Death’: Suicide and Sovereignty in Antony and Cleopatra
    • ‘I kiss his conqu'ring hand’: Cleopatra and the ‘Erotics’ of Imperial Domination
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Shakespeare's Unique Voice Disappears into Rickman's Beard
    • Review of Antony and Cleopatra
    • Rylance's Cleopatra Fails to Match His Female Peers
    • Caught in the Coils of Old Nile
    • Actors Survive the Gimmicks
    • A Stunning Queen, But Where Is the Chemistry?
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Antiquity and Degeneration: The Representation of Egypt and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
    • Antony, Cleopatra, the Market, and the End(s) of History
  • Further Reading
• Antony And Cleopatra (Vol. 27)
  • Introduction
  • Structure
    • Antony and Cleopatra
    • Antony and Cleopatra: The Stillness and the Dance
  • Language
    • 'High Events as These': The Language of Hyperbole in Antony and Cleopatra
    • Feliciter audax: Antony and Cleopatra, I, i, I-24
  • Myth
    • The Common Liar: Tradition as Source in Antony and Cleopatra
    • 'The Choice of Hercules' in 'Antony and Cleopatra'
  • Rome Vs. Egypt
    • The Public and Private Worlds of Antony and Cleopatra
    • Love
  • Cleopratra
    • Shakespeare's Boy Cleopatra, the Decorum of Nature, and the Golden World of Poetry
    • Egyptian Queens and Male Reviewers: Sexist Attitudes in Antony and Cleopatra Criticism
  • Further Reading
• The Luck of Caesar: Winning and Losing in Antony and Cleopatra
• Antony and Cleopatra (Vol. 47)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • Antony and Cleopatra: The Limits of Mythology
    • Infinite Variety: Uncertainty and Judgment in Antony and Cleopatra
  • Drama As Deception
    • The Ethic of the Imagination: Love and Art in Antony and Cleopatra
    • Divided Response and the Imagination in Antony and Cleopatra
    • Excellent Dissembling: Antony and Cleopatra Playing at Love
    • Renaissance Antitheatricality, Antifeminism, and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
  • Characterization
    • The Dancer and the Dance: A Study of Characterization in the Play
    • The Weight of Antony: Staging 'Character' in Antony and Cleopatra
  • Comic Aspects
    • Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and the Rise of Comedy
    • The Comic Structures of Tragic Endings: The Suicide Scenes in Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra
  • Love And Desire
    • Antony and Cleopatra: Female Subjectivity and Orientalism
    • 'Narcissus in Thy Face': Roman Desire and the Difference it Fakes in Antony and Cleopatra
  • Further Reading