Antony and Cleopatra (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300124736)

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.

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN-10: 0300124732
ISBN-13: 9780300124736
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2007
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.84h x 5.04w x 0.66d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/15/2007 pg. 171