Antony and Cleopatra - Couverture souple

Shakespeare, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0300124732 ISBN 13 : 9780300124736

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2007

Synopsis

The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist

In no other play has Shakespeare created two such equally titanic personages as Rome's great soldier and statesman Mark Antony and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. The story of their irresistible attraction, their jealous quarrels and betrayals, and the effects on friends and subjects of their ruinous choices is a tale leading irretrievably to despair and defeat. Their suicides, however, strike us as a kind of triumph. Shakespeare stood at the height of his powers when he penned this great tragedy, one of the last he produced.

This fully annotated edition makes Antony and Cleopatra completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary, pronunciation, and prosody and provides alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations give readers all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Burton Raffel (1928-2015) was Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities emeritus and professor of English emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Among his many edited and translated publications are Poems and Prose from the Old English, Cligès, Lancelot, Perceval, Erec and Enide, and Yvain. Harold Bloom (1930-2019) was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University. His many books include The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300124732
• ISBN 13: 9780300124736
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Raffel Burton
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• Personne responsable: non disponible