Antony and Cleopatra
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William Shakespeare
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 their ruinous choices is a tale leading irretrievably to despair and defeat. Their suicides, however, strike us as a kind of triumph. Shakespeare stood at the height of his powers when he penned this great tragedy, one of the last he produced.
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Author
William Shakespeare
Pages
215
Publisher
Yale University Press
Published Date
2007-01-01
ISBN
9780300124736 0300124732
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"<b>4.5 stars</b><br/><br/>ah, i love shakespeare"
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"This isn't a bad book, but it is one where the author tells you so often that we don't really know what either Antony or Cleopatra were thinking or what they actually did that one wonders why the book was written. I think we all expect that records of things that happened over 2000 years ago are going to be spotty, so mention it once (perhaps in the introduction) and lets move on."
John Detrick