About this title: "The Annotated Shakespeare" series enables today's readers to understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist. Comprehensive on-page annotations assist with vocabulary, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines in these handsome and affordable paperback editions. In no other play has Shakespeare created two such equally titanic personages as Rome's great soldier and statesman Mark Antony and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. The story of their irresistible attraction, their jealous quarrels and betrayals, and the effects on friends and subjects of ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Cambridge U.P., Cambridge
Date Published: 1968
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. INK. 262 p. 21 cm. The Works of Shakespeare edited for the syndics of the Cambridge University Press. The New Shakespeare.. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 131-244) read more
Binding: Mass market pb
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: [1966]
Description: Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Highlighting/Underlining. Good some underlining and notes in the margins. A Bantam classic, SC300. Unknown printing. xii, 274 p. 18 cm. Bibliography: p. [269]-274.. read more
"although not his most critically acclaimed, by far my favorite shakespearean play. this is a story of ripe, adult love-- love that burns with the complex balance of commitment and sacrifice. antony & cleopatra put the juvenile romance of romeo and juliet to shame!"
"Le serviteur : - Des nouvelles, monseigneur, de Rome.
Antoine : - C'est fâcheux ! Résume.
Cléopâtre : - Non, écoute-les, Antoine :
Fulvie peut-être est irritée, ou qui sait si ce César presque imberbe ne t'envoie pas ses puissants commandements : " Fais ceci ou cela ; saisis ce royaume, et affranchis cet autre ; exécute, ou sinon nous sévissons. "
Antoine : - Comment, mon amour ?
Cléopâtre : - Peut-être, ai-je dit ? c'est bien plutôt certain : tu ne dois pas t'attarder ici plus longtemps ; ta révocation est là, qui vient de César, c'est pourquoi prête l'oreille, Antoine."
"I personally love the reading of this play against that of Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare, an older and a more experienced playwright, crafted an older, somewhat more reasonable pair of lovers. They are another version of the tragic love story, this one far more complicated in politics and ambition, but nonetheless wrapped up in the emotion of it all.
First off, Cleopatra is an amazing character, one of the best female leads in Shakespeare; she's witty, sexy, seductive, and deserved far better than the whiney, overly sentimental character of Antony. Over-the-top at times, she tends to steal the stage whenever she's on it.
The imagery is beautiful in this play; that's always a given at it's one of Shakespeare's talents, but it does truly shine in Antony and Cleopatra. The two are constantly compared to stars or other heavenly bodies, which seems particularly fitting for such historic and famous characters. The description of Cleopatra on her barge in truly lovely and full of opposites, which acts as a running image throughout the play. Male/Female, Rome/Egypt, right for the State/right personally, love/lust, etc.
The ambiguity is another thing that I personally love about this play: there are so many unanswered questions, or answers that could be interpreted completely differently. It adds to the depth and discussion, which makes this play wonderful for a class."
"When everyone thinks of great Shakespearean plays, Hamlet springs to mind, or Lear , or The Tempest, or Dream or the lust filled R&J. I, however, think Tony and Cleo, if I may be informal, is one of Shakespeare's best.
Instead of the heady, young lust, sorry, love that is R&J we are presented with a mature love affair, a love affair that perhaps echoes the court of King James I. A world where the playwright is entirely sympathetic to an Antony who allows his appetite to dominate him. What we are also given, and what rarely gets acknowledged, is a wonderful and at times stark portrayal of power and the politics surrounding it. The play itself as wonderful comments about the nature of getting and keeping power, and about the politics underlings must play in order to keep their heads."
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