Imagining Cleopatra
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-350-05896-5 (ISBN)
This book provides a new literary and cultural history of one of the world’s most contested and politically-charged iconic female figures. It combines a close reading of literary and dramatic works with historical and political contexts, paying particular attention to the three major early modern Cleopatra plays: Mary Sidney’s translation of Robert Garnier’s Marc Antoine, Samuel Daniel’s The Tragedie of Cleopatra, and Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. By examining these conflicting historical and fictional identities, Yasmin Arshad offers a diverse and ground-breaking study of Cleopatra’s ‘infinite variety’.
Yasmin Arshad has a PhD in English and an MA in Shakespeare in History from University College London, UK, where she is an honorary research associate. Her research interests include Renaissance literature; early modern women and their writing; connections between Renaissance portraiture and literature; and the political and literary uses of Taciteanism. In 2013, she produced Samuel Daniel’s Tragedie of Cleopatra, the first such staging of the play in over four hundred years.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Spelling and List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Imagining Cleopatra
1. Sight of that face’: Passion and Politics in Mary Sidney’s Antonius
2. ‘Twixt majestie confuz’d and miserie’: Samuel Daniel’s Tragedie of Cleopatra
3. ‘Will yet this womans stubborne heart be woone?’: Lady Anne Clifford and Daniel’s Cleopatra
4. 'Then thus we have beheld': Staging Daniel's Cleopatra
5. ‘She did make defect perfection’: The Paradox and Variety of Shakespeare's Cleopatra
6. Epilogue and Conclusion: Cleopatra after Shakespeare
Appendix: The ‘Cleopatra’ Statue and the Poems at the Vatican
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 25.07.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama |
Zusatzinfo | 18 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Gewicht | 481 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-05896-3 / 1350058963 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-05896-5 / 9781350058965 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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