Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Author: Stanley Wells
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198785291
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Shakespeare's tragedies contain an astonishing variety of suffering, from suicides and murders to dismemberments and grief. Stanley Wells considers how the bard's tragic plays drew on the literary and theatrical conventions of his time. Discussing the individual plays, he also explores why tragedy is regarded as a fit subject for entertainment.

Author: Paul Krause
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725297396
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Tolle Lege, take up and read! These words from St. Augustine perfectly describe the human condition. Reading is the universal pilgrimage of the soul. In reading we journey to find ourselves and to save ourselves. The ultimate journey is reading the Great Books. In the Great Books we find the struggle of the human soul, its aspirations, desires, and failures. Through reading, we find faces and souls familiar to us even if they lived a thousand years ago. The unread life is not worth living, and in reading we may well discover what life is truly about and prepare ourselves for the pilgrimage of life.

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443441554
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Among the most enduring poetry of all time, William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets address such eternal themes as love, beauty, honesty, and the passage of time. Written primarily in four-line stanzas and iambic pentameter, Shakespeare’s sonnets are now recognized as marking the beginning of modern love poetry. The sonnets have been translated into all major written languages and are frequently used at romantic celebrations. Known as “The Bard of Avon,” William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest English-language writer known. Enormously popular during his life, Shakespeare’s works continue to resonate more than three centuries after his death, as has his influence on theatre and literature. Shakespeare’s innovative use of character, language, and experimentation with romance as tragedy served as a foundation for later playwrights and dramatists, and some of his most famous lines of dialogue have become part of everyday speech. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Author: Dryden
Publisher: The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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Author: Diana Preston
Publisher: Walker Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Much mythology has grown up around the world's best-remembered celebrity couple, all of which Preston explores in her stirring history of the lives and times of a couple who--more than two millennia later--still invokes passion, curiosity, and intrigue.

Author: Jan H. Blits
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739138251
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Patterned after his previous books on Shakespeare's plays, Jan H. Blits's New Heaven, New Earth is a scene-by-scene, line-by-line philosophical study of Antony and Cleopatra. Combining close attention to detail with interpretive breadth, Blits approaches Shakespeare as a first-rank thinker who, master of his own thought and writing, produced plays and poetry with an infinitely conscious art, like any commonly recognized philosophical poet. Treating the play as a fully coherent whole, Blits shows that Antony and Cleopatra, as much a history play as a love story, depicts the transition from the pagan to the Christian world_from the aftermath of the collapse of the Roman Republic and the decline of the pagan gods to the emergence of the Roman Empire and the conditions giving rise to Christianity. Instead of being organized thematically, New Heaven, New Earth follows the play from beginning to end, closely examining Shakespeare's text on its own terms and not on the terms of modern literary theory. Using this approach, Blits draws significant and insightful conclusions that will satisfy the interests of scholars of politics, literature, and history alike.

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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: William F. Zak
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 149851037X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 173

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This revaluation of Shakespeare’s most seductive tragedy, Antony and Cleopatra, allies itself with neither George Bernard Shaw and Philo’s Roman judgment of the lovers as “strumpet and fool”—premised on the idle sensuality and feckless self-regard ever evident in the regal pair—nor with the many at the opposite critical pole who have found themselves swept up, to some extent at least, in the “grand illusion” of the lovers themselves as peerless figures transcending the very deaths to which Caesar’s heartless predation drives them. Nor does it seek some middle way, settling into a comfortable agnosticism that claims the poet’s view of the pair remains too ambiguous to resolve. Instead, by mining a wealth of metaphoric cross-references and ironical, mirroring figurations provided by the tragedy’s subsidiary characterizations, this new analysis argues that Shakespeare’s assessment of the lovers is in fact unambiguous: Antony and Cleopatra unknowingly settle for functioning merely as two more of the play’s eunuchs fanning the flames of their self-destructive passions for one another when they could have realized the new heaven and new earth Antony promised his queen had their “intercourse” with one another been more vigorously complete. Not alone their deaths, but their entire experience is this play is but a search for “easy ways to die” rather than the quest is should have been to live more richly yet and generate new life beyond their respective notorieties as separate individuals to be celebrated.

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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"The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare is a captivating tale of love, power, and political intrigue set against the backdrop of the ancient world. The play follows the tumultuous relationship between the Roman general Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra as they navigate the complexities of their personal desires and their roles on the world stage. At the heart of the story is the passionate and tempestuous love affair between Antony and Cleopatra, which defies political boundaries and societal norms. Their relationship is marked by intense emotions, grand gestures, and profound conflicts as they struggle to balance their love for each other with their duties to their respective empires. Against the backdrop of their romance, Shakespeare explores themes of ambition, loyalty, and betrayal as Antony's allegiance to Cleopatra leads to a confrontation with his fellow triumvirs, Octavius Caesar and Lepidus. The ensuing power struggle culminates in the famous naval Battle of Actium, where Antony and Cleopatra's forces are defeated, leading to their tragic deaths.