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  • Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra

    - A. C. Bradley, “Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra,” in Oxford Lectures on Poetry (London: MacMillan, 1909), 279–308
    Excerpt: Coleridge’s one page of general criticism on Antony and Cleopatra contains some notable remarks. “Of all Shakespeare’s historical plays,” he writes, “Antony and Cleopatra is by far the most wonderful. There is not one in… More

  • The Politics of Empire

    - Paul A. Cantor, Shakespeare’s Rome: Republic and Empire, 125-208
    Excerpt: “In approaching Antony and Cleopatra many critics assume the play deals with the opposition of the public and private life, that it involves a straightforward confrontation between politics in the abstract and love in the abstract. For this… More

  • Antony and Cleopatra

    - Michael Platt, Rome and Romans According to Shakespeare, 258–77
    Excerpt: In Pompey and throughout the play we see the fading of Roman virtue. It survives, but fitfully, in the intermittent courage of Antony; in his magnaminity it glows but ember-like; and in his sensuality it bows before a new god, both unRoman and… More

  • Antony and Cleopatra

    - Allan Bloom, "Antony and Cleopatra," in Love and Friendship, Simon and Schuster, New York, NY, 1993.
    “Shakespeare was the first philosopher of history. He self-consciously tried to understand the minds of men and women of the most diverse times and places, always with the view to how the permanent problems of human nature are addressed and what are the… More

  • Antony and Cleopatra: Empire, Globalization, and the Clash of Civilizations

    - Paul A. Cantor, “Antony and Cleopatra: Empire, Globalization, and the Clash of Civilizations,” in Shakespeare and Politics, eds. Altschuler and Genovese

  • Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy: The Twilight of the Ancient World by Paul Cantor

    - Cantor, Paul A. Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy: The Twilight of the Ancient World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
    From the publisher: Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare’s Roman plays—Coriolanus, Julius Caeser, and Antony and Cleopatra—in his landmark Shakespeare’s Rome (1976). With Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy, he now argues that these plays form an… More