Antony and Cleopatra

Series Introduction

Introduction

Biography of William Shakespeare

Summary of Antony and Cleopatra

Key Passages in Antony and Cleopatra

List of Characters in Antony and Cleopatra

Criticism Through the Ages

Antony and Cleopatra in the Seventeenth Century

1678 From the Preface to All for Love

1680 From "Address to Edward Tayler," in The Loyal General, a Tragedy

Antony and Cleopatra in the Eighteenth Century

1759 From "Some Remarks upon the New-revived Play of Antony and Cleopatra"

1765 From "Notes on the Plays," in The Plays of William Shakespeare

1774 From Bell's Edition of Shakespeare's Plays

1784 From Dramatic Miscellanies

Antony and Cleopatra in the Nineteenth Century

1809 From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

1817 From Characters of Shakespear's Plays

1818 From Shakspeare, with Introductory Remarks on Poetry, the Drama, and the Stage

1832 From Shakespeare's Heroines: Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, & Historical

1857 From Remarks on the Differences in Shakespeare's Versification in Different Periods of His Life

1875 From Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art

1896 "The Dark Lady as a Model-The Fall of the Republic a World-Catastrophe," from William Shakespeare: A Critical Study

Antony and Cleopatra in the Twentieth Century

1901 From "Preface: Better than Shakespear?" from Three Plays for Puritans

1909 From "Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra," in Oxford Lectures on Poetry

1931 "The Diadem of Love: An Essay on Antony and Cleopatra," from The Imperial Theme: Further Interpretations of Shakespeare's Tragedies Including the Roman Plays

1951 "Antony and Cleopatra," from The Meaning of Shakespeare

1972 "'Nature's Piece 'Gainst Fancy': The Divided Catastrophe in Antony and Cleopatra," from An Inaugural Lecture (to the Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature in the University of London tenable at Bedford College)

1974 "The Significance of Style," from Shakespeare's Living Art

1986 "Antony and Cleopatra," from Northrop Frye on Shakespeare

1988 "Enter a Messenger," from William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

1988 "Introduction," from William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra in the Twenty-first Century

2000 "Antony's 'Secret House of Death': Suicide and Sovereignty in Antony and Cleopatra," from Philological Quarterly

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index