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Genre/Form: | tragedies Tragedies (Drama) Drama History Tragedies Tragédies |
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Named Person: | Marcus Antonius; Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt; Marcus Antonius; Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Shakespeare; Burton Raffel; Harold Bloom |
ISBN: | 9780300124736 0300124732 |
OCLC Number: | 133465550 |
Description: | xxxvii, 215 pages ; 20 cm. |
Contents: | About this book -- Introduction -- Some essentials of the Shakespearean stage -- Antony and Cleopatra -- An essay by Harold Bloom. |
Responsibility: | William Shakespeare ; edited, fully annotated, and introduced by Burton Raffel ; with an essay by Harold Bloom. |
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Abstract:
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 the effects on friends and subjects of their ruinous choices is a tale leading irretrievably to despair and defeat.
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