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"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...

"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...

William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditio...

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare Scholars believe that Shakespeare wrote Antony and Cleopatra in late 1606 or early 1607, shortly after writing King Lear and Macbeth (also covered in WLAIT 3: British and Irish Literature and Its Times)....

Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, originally printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot, based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Mark Antony, follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the...

The baby mummy had a European mom, and likely came from a wealthy family. But where he lived and why he died _ and at such a young age _ remain a mystery. The mummy, exhibited for the first time Thursday at the Saint Louis...

It started out amusing, in a way, but now it’s getting ugly—the little-noticed battle over The New York Times’ Shakespeare coverage. Earlier this month, invocations of creationism and Holocaust denial were injected into the debate by no less an authority than Harvard’s Stephen Greenblatt, author...

It started out amusing, in a way, but now it’s getting ugly—the little-noticed battle over The New York Times’ Shakespeare coverage.Earlier this month, invocations of creationism and Holocaust denial were injected into the debate by no less an authority than Harvard’s Stephen Greenblatt, author of...

In the following essay, Habib suggests that in Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare contrasted noble England and the white, virginal Queen Elizabeth with the torpor of Egypt and its black and wanton ruler, Cleopatra.

In the following essay, Barroll examines the way in which desire and its “strangeness” inform the characterization of Antony.

In the following essay, Lewis identifies a Christian analogue to Antony's character and argues that understanding this parallel puts into perspective the various attitudes professed in the play regarding Antony's self-sacrificial love.

Describes how William Shakespeare presents Cleopatra in the play "Antony and Cleopatra" as a women and how she is difficult to categorize. Also discusses if she is domineering.

Shakespeare presents Rome and Egypt to the audience as complete opposites. He makes these differences obvious throughout as the location of the play switches quickly between the two worlds. Rome is presented as a serious, military culture grounded in reality. Egypt juxtaposes this behaviour as it is indulgent, extravagant and part of a dream world.

This is a discussion of the fatal collision of Eastern and Western cultures in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" and examines how this affects relationships and events within the play.