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List of contents
Acknowledgments ix1. Shakespeare’s Anamorphic Drama: A Survey of Antony and Cleopatra in Criticism, on Stage, and on Screen 2. “Above the element they lived in”: The Visual Language in Antony and Cleopatra, Acts 4 and 5 3. Passion and Politics: Antony and Cleopatra in Performance 4. Cleopatra’s Sati: Old Ideologies and Modern Stagings 5. “High events as these”: Sources, Influences, and the Artistry of Antony and Cleopatra 6. Rome and Egypt in Antony and Cleopatra and in Criticism of the Play 7. “He beats thee ’gainst the odds”: Gambling, Risk Management, and Antony and Cleopatra 8. “Cloyless Sauce”: 213The Pleasurable Politics of Food in Antony and Cleopatra 9. Cleopatra and the Myth of Scota 10. “Immortal Longings”: The Erotics of Death in Antony and Cleopatra11. Sleep, Epic, and Romance in Antony and Cleopatra 12. The Allusive Tissue of Antony and Cleopatra 13. O’erpicturing Apelles: Shakespeare’s Paragone with Painting in Antony and Cleopatra 14. Interview with Giles Block, Director of the 1999 Production of Antony and Cleopatra at Shakespeare’s Globe in London
About the author
Sara Munson Deats is Distinguished University Professor of English and former head of the Department of English at University of South Florida.
Summary
Complementing other volumes in the Shakespeare Criticism Series, this collection of twenty original essays will expand the critical contexts in which Antony and Cleopatra can be enjoyed as both literature and theater. The essays will cover a wide spectrum of topics and utilize a diversity of scholarly methodologies, including textual and performance-oriented approaches, intertextual studies, as well as feminist, psychoanalytical, Marxist, and postcolonial inquiries. The volume will also feature an extensive introduction by the editor surveying the under-examined performance history and critical trends/legacy of this complex play. Contributors include prominent Shakespeare scholars David Bevington, Dympna Callaghan, Leeds Barroll, David Fuller, Dorothea Kehler, and Linda Woodbridge.
