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Antony and Cleopatra Paperback – 7 July 2005

by David Bevington (Editor)
4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
Edition: 2nd
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The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of Antony and Cleopatra, David Bevington has included in his introductory section a thorough consideration of recent critical and stage interpretations, demonstrating how the theatrical design and imagination of this play make it one of Shakespeare's most remarkable tragedies. The edition is attentive throughout to the play as theatre: a detailed, illustrated account of the stage history is followed, in the commentary, by discussion of staging options offered by the text. The commentary is especially full and helpful, untangling many obscure words and phrases, illuminating sexual puns, and alerting the reader to Shakespeare's shaping of his source material in Plutarch's Lives.
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  1. ISBN-10
    052161287X
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0521612876
  3. Edition
    2nd
  4. Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
  5. Publication date
    7 July 2005
  6. Part of series
    The New Cambridge Shakespeare
  7. Language
    English
  8. Dimensions
    15.19 x 1.75 x 22.81 cm
  9. Print length
    304 pages
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Second edition of Antony and Cleopatra featuring an introductory section on recent criticism and performance.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (7 July 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 052161287X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521612876
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.19 x 1.75 x 22.81 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

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William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and was baptised on 26 April 1564. Thought to have been educated at the local grammar school, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he went on to have three children, at the age of eighteen, before moving to London to work in the theatre. Two erotic poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were published in 1593 and 1594 and records of his plays begin to appear in 1594 for Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI. Shakespeare's tragic period lasted from around 1600 to 1608, during which period he wrote plays including Hamlet and Othello. The first editions of the sonnets were published in 1609 but evidence suggests that Shakespeare had been writing them for years for a private readership.

Shakespeare spent the last five years of his life in Stratford, by now a wealthy man. He died on 23 April 1616 and was buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. The first collected edition of his works was published in 1623.

(The portrait details: The Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed. NPG1, © National Portrait Gallery, London)

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  • JB
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 October 2016
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    Very good indeed
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  • Mike Emery
    5.0 out of 5 stars The love affair is quickly doomed
    Reviewed in the United States on 13 March 2015
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    I will first comment on the play, then on the 2005 updated edition by David Bevington. The play is one of last Shakespeare wrote, mixing genres he had done separately, but had often mixed in other ways (history, tragedy, romance). Since he was taking on the actual historical failure of a nation, the plot's end was predestined. What mattered was how to get to that end convincingly. He begins in the middle of the relationship of the title characters, with secondary characters looking on in disapproval. Antony is increasingly forced to do what Rome wants, while Cleopatra feels increasingly abandoned and grows desperate. In other words, the love affair is quickly doomed. As tragic lovers, Antony and Cleopatra are closer to King and Queen Macbeth than they are to Romeo and Juliet. One could say that Rome brings Antony down, but Cleopatra brings herself down. She plays both ends against the middle, foundering at the effort. Is she a noble queen attempting to save her country? Is she a passionate woman attempting to save her love? She can't do both, and in trying fails. Since Shakespeare saves tragic heroism for men, one can't say she symbolically triumphs (as Macbeth does--the bloodier he gets, the more endowed he is with existential wisdom). However, she does fascinate, and some critics have called her a disguised portrayal of Elizabeth on the English throne. That is reason enough to reread this extraordinary play--heavy, talky and long though it is.

    Bevington updated his 2000 edition in the New Cambridge Shakespeare series in 2005, and the book could use another updating. A lot of productions and critical material have seen the light of day in the last decade. Nevertheless, this is a superior scholarly edition with most of what an undergraduate would need for a thorough go-through of the play. As an instructor, I will work with two other scholarly editions to create a composite for my students. Each editor will do somewhat different line readings in the notes, and also make different choices of copy-text (the version of the play used as the primary text the edition is based on) and editorial choices for spellings, punctuation, and even word choice (based on other extant versions, if any exist). It is amazing how differently a line will read if "Most" is replaced with "Must." My only caveat: the NCS general editors do not have a master list of all critical sources referred to in the notes, and often abbreviate the information about those sources, leaving some sources harder to track down than others. The 2005 addition to the introduction, "Recent Critical and Stage Interpretations," is most helpful, and acknowledges that a successful production of a play is a good interpretation of it. Dramaturges working on productions can use the edition as a starting point, but need to go further.
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  • Marianne V
    5.0 out of 5 stars Produit comme décris
    Reviewed in France on 15 November 2019
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    Produis comme décris
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  • Steve Rigby
    4.0 out of 5 stars Worth waiting for, i guess...
    Reviewed in Canada on 10 June 2020
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    Took WAY too long to arrive.
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  • Salvatore P. Salerno
    5.0 out of 5 stars Theatrically informative
    Reviewed in the United States on 9 November 2006
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    The Cambridge editions are well edited academic editions but what sets them apart is their relationship to theatrical performance. As a diretor or actor working on the play, these editions offer great background information into theatrical practice and past productions . Productions are discussed from the ancient past through the modern day. They are remarkably current and their essays on staging are unmatched by other editions.
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