Antony and Cleopatra
By: William Shakespeare ; edited by John Wilders
Contributors: Wilders, John, editor
Series: The Arden Shakespeare; Arden Shakespeare
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Drama
Description: Antony and Cleopatra rival Romeo and Juliet for the title of most famous lovers in Western drama. Shakespeare's play, probably written around 1606-7 (though not appearing in print until the First Folio of 1623), reflects the popularity of the story in the early modern imagination. Shakespeare's play is heavily indebted to Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives of the Greeks and Romans', written in the first century AD, and translated into English by Sir Thomas North in 1579.
Notes: Previously issued in print: London: Arden Shakespeare, 1995.

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