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Antony and Cleopatra has the strangest stage history of any of Shakespeare's major tragedies. Richard Madelaine explains how the play's challenging complexity has at different times inhibited or promoted its success on the stage, and accounts for the remarkable resurgence of performances in the last twenty years. Madelaine provides the only detailed, extensive and up-to-date history of the play on stage and screen, in and beyond Britain. His introduction and commentary examine the ways in which cultural factors have shaped the performance of the play, and how actors have tackled the main parts, in particular the exotic eroticism of Cleopatra. In the process he reveals not only the rich plurality of possible readings of the play, but also changing attitudes to Shakespeare.… (more)
Anonymous user: Shakespeare's treatments of passionate, irrational and self-destructive love between teenagers (R&J) and mature people (A&C) make for a truly fascinating comparison. The vastly greater political and metaphysical implications, as well as the extreme concentration of the language, in the later play show how far Shakespeare developed for just over a decade.… (more)
جدای از زیبایی نمایشنامه و داستان، دو نکته‌ی برجسته نظر من رو به خودش جلب کرد:
اول نوع پرده‌بندی در این نمایشنامه که انگار در پرده پیشین داستان تمام می‌شد و داستان دیگه‌ای آغاز می‌شد... مثلاً در پرده‌ی دوم آنتونی و قیصر درگیر توطئه‌ی پومپی هستند، اما در پایان پرده‌ی دوم این قسمت از قصه به پایان می‌رسه و داستان بخش دیگری آغاز می‌شه.
دوم نوع شخصیت‌پردازی شخصیت‌ها... تا آخر نمایشنامه با اینکه با شخصیت‌های اصلی هم‌دردی می‌کنید، اما نمی‌تونید با طیب خاطر حق رو بهشون بدید یا بگید که دنبال باطل رفتند... شخصیت‌ها تا حدود زیادی (اونقدر که در قرن 17 اجازه می‌داده و مخاطب رو می‌تونسته درگیر کنه) خاکستری‌اند... این نکته وقتی جالب‌تر می‌شه که این نمایشنامه از روی زندگی شخصیت‌هایی نوشته شده که واقعاً وجود داشتند و خاکستری بودنشون به نمایش بعد انسانی‌شون بسیار کمک کرده. ( )
This tragedy features triumvir Mark Antony and Queen of Egypt Cleopatra. She loves him although he is married. Octavius Caesar, the third political figure in the book, keeps the play's action interesting. Based on texts from Plutarch's Lives, we learn a little history of the Roman Republic prior to the time of Christ. It's not my favorite Shakespeare, but I liked it better after reading it this second time. I probably would not have re-read it, if I"d remembered how Cleopatra died. It's a classic, and a great way to share a little ancient history. ( )
Would LOVE to see this played as a screwball comedy all the way through, yes, including all the deaths at the end. Cleopatra is one of the funniest and broadest characters in Shakespeare, and what's more comedic than triumvers drunkenly discoursing on the crocodile, or, you know, a man botching his own disembowelment? For heaven's sake, the most dramatic scene in the play is interrupted for several minutes when a clown stumbles into it and refuses to take his cue to leave. ( )
Nay, but this dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn, The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper, And is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy's lust.
Quotations
My salad days, When I was green in judgment.
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
Small to greater matters must give way.
Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness.
I have Immortal longings in me.
Last words
Come, Dolabella, see High order in this great solemnity.
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Antony and Cleopatra has the strangest stage history of any of Shakespeare's major tragedies. Richard Madelaine explains how the play's challenging complexity has at different times inhibited or promoted its success on the stage, and accounts for the remarkable resurgence of performances in the last twenty years. Madelaine provides the only detailed, extensive and up-to-date history of the play on stage and screen, in and beyond Britain. His introduction and commentary examine the ways in which cultural factors have shaped the performance of the play, and how actors have tackled the main parts, in particular the exotic eroticism of Cleopatra. In the process he reveals not only the rich plurality of possible readings of the play, but also changing attitudes to Shakespeare.
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اول نوع پرده‌بندی در این نمایشنامه که انگار در پرده پیشین داستان تمام می‌شد و داستان دیگه‌ای آغاز می‌شد... مثلاً در پرده‌ی دوم آنتونی و قیصر درگیر توطئه‌ی پومپی هستند، اما در پایان پرده‌ی دوم این قسمت از قصه به پایان می‌رسه و داستان بخش دیگری آغاز می‌شه.
دوم نوع شخصیت‌پردازی شخصیت‌ها... تا آخر نمایشنامه با اینکه با شخصیت‌های اصلی هم‌دردی می‌کنید، اما نمی‌تونید با طیب خاطر حق رو بهشون بدید یا بگید که دنبال باطل رفتند... شخصیت‌ها تا حدود زیادی (اونقدر که در قرن 17 اجازه می‌داده و مخاطب رو می‌تونسته درگیر کنه) خاکستری‌اند... این نکته وقتی جالب‌تر می‌شه که این نمایشنامه از روی زندگی شخصیت‌هایی نوشته شده که واقعاً وجود داشتند و خاکستری بودنشون به نمایش بعد انسانی‌شون بسیار کمک کرده. (