Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Barroll, J. Leeds. Shakespearean Tragedy: Genre, Tradition, and Change in Antony and Cleopatra. Washington, D.C.: Folger Books, 1984.

Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.

Brown, John Russell. Antony and Cleopatra: A Casebook. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1991.

Granville-Barker, Harley. Prefaces to Shakespeare. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1946.

Heilman, Robert, ed. Shakespeare: The Tragedies. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1984.

Miles, Geoffrey. Shakespeare and the Constant Romans. New York: Clarendon Press, 1996.

Rose, Mark, ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Antony and Cleopatra: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1977.

Schanzer, Ernest. The Problem Plays of Shakespeare: A Study of Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, and Antony and Cleopatra. New York: Schocken Books, 1963.

Thomas, Vivian. Shakespeare’s Roman Worlds. New York: Routledge, 1989.

Wofford, Susanne L., ed. Shakespeare’s Late Tragedies: A Collection of Critical Essays. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1996.

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