'Antony and Cleopatra' in Context: The Politics of Passion

by Keith Linley

2020-05-06 16:27:51

This engaging book provides in-depth discussion of the various influences that an audience in 1607 would have brought to interpreting ‘Antony and Cleopatra’. How did people think about the world, about God, about sin, about kings, about c... Read more
This engaging book provides in-depth discussion of the various influences that an audience in 1607 would have brought to interpreting ‘Antony and Cleopatra’. How did people think about the world, about God, about sin, about kings, about civilized conduct? Learn about the social hierarchy, gender relationships, court corruption, class tensions, the literary profile of the time, the concept of tragedy – and all the subversions, transgressions, and oppositions that made the play an unsettling picture of a disintegrating world lost through passion and machination. Less

Book Details

File size9 X 6 X 0.61 in
Print pages268
PublisherWimbledon Publishing Company
Publication date February 15, 2015
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781783083770

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