Hi
This is a little something on Antony and Cleopatra by
William Shakespeare.
My copy has 134 pages play and 15 pages introduction.
I got it at the Boekenfestijn.
My copy has 134 pages play and 15 pages introduction.
I got it at the Boekenfestijn.
“Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest
tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and
politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of imperial power and
the intensities of his sexual relationship with Cleopatra. She, variously
generous and ruthless, loving and jealous, petulant and majestic, emerges as
Shakespeare's most complex depiction of a woman”
The book is a different take on how love changes people, how
it affects them. It’s also about
politics and how that changes people. To me, those are the most important and
most obvious elements.
But I’m no literary scholar, I just read it for my own enjoyment and I can’t say I enjoyed it that much.
The differences in style were really aggravating me. I’m not sure whether those were part of the original play or just my edition but they really dragged me out of it.
But I’m no literary scholar, I just read it for my own enjoyment and I can’t say I enjoyed it that much.
The differences in style were really aggravating me. I’m not sure whether those were part of the original play or just my edition but they really dragged me out of it.
3 STARS
Happy reading!
Helena
Helena
