{"product_id":"a-contextual-guide-to-shakespeares-antony-and-cleopatra-history-myth-gender-9781474494267","title":"A Contextual Guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra: History, Myth, Gender","description":"Employing commentary on the play's main themes, coupled with an editorial apparatus that connects selected primary texts (from Ovid to Montaigne) with Shakespeare's great tragedy, Jyotsna G. Singh and Daniel Vitkus guide the reader through a series of fascinating readings that serve to reconstruct the intellectual and artistic world of \u003ci\u003eAntony and Cleopatra \u003c\/i\u003ethrough varied perspectives. This includes chapters on History and Prophecy; Myth; Geography; Gender, Desire, and Eroticism; Theatricality, Festivity, and Spectacle; and Emblematic Perspectives; followed by a Coda describing and analysing some 'Afterlives' of the play on the modern stage. Through their exposure to these thematic frameworks, readers will come to understand more clearly the interpretive possibilities offered by \u003ci\u003eAntony and Cleopatra \u003c\/i\u003eas a complex and masterful work of art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSingh, Jyotsna G.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jyotsna G. Singh is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at Michigan State University. Her key publications include \u003ci\u003eThe Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics \u003c\/i\u003e(co-authored with Dympna Callaghan and Lorraine Helms, 1994), \u003ci\u003eColonial Narratives\/Cultural Dialogues: 'Discoveries' of India in the Language of Colonialism \u003c\/i\u003e(1996\u003ci\u003e)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Postcolonial Theory \u003c\/i\u003e(2019), \u003ci\u003eTravel Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with Ivo Kamps, 2001), and \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500-1700 \u003c\/i\u003e(2009, 2021).\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVitkus, Daniel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Daniel Vitkus is Professor and Rebeca Hickel Endowed Chair in Elizabethan Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTurning Turk: English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean, 1570-1630\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and of numerous articles and book chapters on the literature and cultural history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Vitkus is also the editor of\u003ci\u003e Piracy, Slavery and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England \u003c\/i\u003e(2001) and \u003ci\u003eThree Turk Plays from Early Modern England \u003c\/i\u003e(2000).","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52179129467154,"sku":"9781474494267","price":172.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7304084b-8d0c-4cb7-81d4-5d9d6a195b62.jpg?v=1775636811","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-contextual-guide-to-shakespeares-antony-and-cleopatra-history-myth-gender-9781474494267","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}