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Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra: Allegory on the Banks of the Nile and the Thames: A Brief Case Study

Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra: Allegory on the Banks of the Nile and the Thames: A Brief Case Study

Norwood, James

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Literary CriticismTheater HistoryShakespeare

ISBN10: 1835638066
ISBN13: 9781835638064
Publisher: New Generation Publishing
Published: Sep 12 2025
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Having performed the role of Cleopatra on numerous occasions, Vanessa Redgrave delivered a lecture at the Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities in which she raised the following questions: Why was Antony and Cleopatra not performed in the author's lifetime? and What did Shakespeare have in mind when he was writing it? This book seeks to respond to these questions through the lens of allegory, which was an all-embracing attitude ingrained in Tudor England. As a literary technique, allegory presents characters abstractly with moral and political significance. A second and related topic is the use of satire, another preferred literary form of Elizabethan writers. An understanding of the conjunction of allegory and satire may shed light on interpreting Antony and Cleopatra in productions. Redgrave also considers how Elizabeth I figures in the complex portrait of Cleopatra. In the matchless pair of Cleopatra and Elizabeth, there is a sense of soul mates across the ages, a tapestry of camaraderie that is woven into the fabric of one of Shakespeare's most complex plays.

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