Antony and C leopatra Shakespeare Criticism PHILIP C. KOLIN, General Editor ROMEOANDJULIET Shakespeare’s Sonnets Critical Essays Critical Essays Edited by John F. Andrews Edited by James Schiffer Coriolanus Pericles Critical Essays Critical Essays Edited by David Wheeler Edited by David Skeele Titus Andronicus Henry VI Critical Essays Critical Essays Edited by Philip C. Kolin Edited by Thomas A. Pendleton Love’s Labour’s Lost The Tempest Critical Essays Critical Essays Edited by Felicia Hardison Londre Edited by Patrick M. Murphy The Winter’s Tale Taming of the Shrew Critical Essays Critical Essays Edited by Maurice Hunt Edited by Dana Aspinall Two Gentlemen of Verona Othello Critical Essays New Critical Essays Edited by June Schlueter Edited by Philip C. Kolin Venus and Adonis Hamlet Critical Essays New Critical Essays Edited by Philip C. Kolin Edited by Arthur F. 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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge's collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,mechanical,or other means,now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system,without permission in writing from the publishers. Shakespeare Criticism,Volume 30 Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 0-203-30794-1 Master e-book ISBN To Gordon My peerless “man of men” Contents Acknowledgments ix 1. Shakespeare’s Anamorphic Drama: 1 A Survey of Antony and Cleopatrain Criticism, on Stage,and on Screen SARA MUNSON DEATS 2. “Above the element they lived in”: 95 The Visual Language in Antony and Cleopatra, Acts 4 and 5 DAVID BEVINGTON 3. Passion and Politics: 111 Antony and Cleopatrain Performance DAVID FULLER 4. Cleopatra’s Sati: 137 Old Ideologies and Modern Stagings DOROTHEA KEHLER 5. “High events as these”: 153 Sources,Influences,and the Artistry of Antony and Cleopatra ROBERT A. LOGAN 6. Rome and Egypt in Antony and Cleopatra 175 and in Criticism of the Play JAMES HIRSH vii viii Contents 7. “He beats thee ’gainst the odds”: 193 Gambling,Risk Management, and Antony and Cleopatra LINDA WOODBRIDGE 8. “Cloyless Sauce”: 213 The Pleasurable Politics of Food in Antony and Cleopatra PETER A. PAROLIN 9. Cleopatra and the Myth of Scota 231 LISA HOPKINS 10.“Immortal Longings”: 243 The Erotics of Death in Antony and Cleopatra LISA S. STARKS 11.Sleep,Epic,and Romance in Antony and Cleopatra 259 GARRETT A. SULLIVAN JR. 12.The Allusive Tissue of Antony and Cleopatra 275 LEEDS BARROLL 13.O’erpicturing Apelles: 291 Shakespeare’s Paragonewith Painting in Antony and Cleopatra MARGUERITE A. TASSI 14.Interview with Giles Block, 309 Director of the 1999 Production of Antony and Cleopatraat Shakespeare’s Globe in London GEORGIA E. BROWN Notes on the Contributors 325 Index 327 Acknowledgments This book is the result of many years of reading about and teaching Antony and Cleopatra. Many individuals and institutions have contributed to the completion of this study and I would like to acknowledge at least some of them at this time. First and foremost, my gratitude to my thirteen contributors for their innovative and inspirational essays o’erflows the measure. I am confident that these original essays,written especially for this anthology,through the vari- ety of their subject matter and the diversity of their critical approaches,will significantly expand the critical contexts within which this vast and wonder- ful drama can be read,viewed,and analyzed. I would also like to express my appreciation to the Chairperson of my Department,Phillip Sipiora,who offered continual support,both psychologi- cal and financial,for this project. In addition,I would like to thank the Sab- batical Committee at the University of South Florida,which granted me the research time absolutely necessary for the completion of this endeavor, and the USF Publications Council, which contributed funds to support this pro- ject. David Fuller also would like to acknowledge substantial financial sup- port from the British Academy in carrying out the archival research for his essay. I also am grateful to all of the librarians,curators,and theater personnel who graciously and tirelessly assisted me in finding necessary research mate- rial and illustrations for this collection. These include the library staff of the University of South Florida; Kathleen Coleman of the Harvard Theatre Col- lection; Janet Birkett of the London Theatre Museum; Audrey Hall of the National Museums of Liverpool; Stacy Bemento of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Sylvia Morris,Marian Pringle,Susan Brock,and Helen Hargest of the Shakespeare Centre Library in Stratford-upon-Avon; Martin Durrant of the ix