Arshad Yasmin (Independent Scholar Usa)
Arshad Yasmin (Independent Scholar Usa) - Imagining Cleopatra Performing Gender And Power In Early Modern England - Paperback
Arshad Yasmin (Independent Scholar Usa) - Imagining Cleopatra Performing Gender And Power In Early Modern England - Paperback
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Description: Shakespeare's characterization of Cleopatra may dominate the collective consciousness but he was only one of several 16th - century writers fascinated by the enigmatic queen of Egypt. Early modern conceptions of Cleopatra offer a rich complex and variable set of models for understanding the period's responses to race female sovereignty and classical antiquity. This interdisciplinary study investigates images of Cleopatra in the early modern period and examines how her story was mediated and used from drawing lessons from history to being a symbol of female heroism. It draws on early historiographical works political and philosophical treatises coterie dramatic productions and gender race and performance studies as well as evidence from material culture to consider what was known and thought about Cleopatra in the period This book provides a new literary and cultural history of one of the world's most contested and politically - charged iconic female figures. It combines a close reading of literary and dramatic works with historical and political contexts paying particular attention to the three major early modern Cleopatra plays: Mary Sidney's translation of Robert Garnier's Marc Antoine Samuel Daniel's The Tragedie of Cleopatra and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. By examining these conflicting historical and fictional identities Yasmin Arshad offers a diverse and ground - breaking study of Cleopatra's infinite variety .
Title: Imagining Cleopatra Performing Gender And Power In Early Modern England
Author(s): Arshad Yasmin (Independent Scholar Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350248878
Pages: 360 Pages, 18 Bw Illus
Publication Date: 6/17/2021
Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama
Category: Shakespeare Studies & Criticism
Description: Shakespeare's characterization of Cleopatra may dominate the collective consciousness but he was only one of several 16th - century writers fascinated by the enigmatic queen of Egypt. Early modern conceptions of Cleopatra offer a rich complex and variable set of models for understanding the period's responses to race female sovereignty and classical antiquity. This interdisciplinary study investigates images of Cleopatra in the early modern period and examines how her story was mediated and used from drawing lessons from history to being a symbol of female heroism. It draws on early historiographical works political and philosophical treatises coterie dramatic productions and gender race and performance studies as well as evidence from material culture to consider what was known and thought about Cleopatra in the period This book provides a new literary and cultural history of one of the world's most contested and politically - charged iconic female figures. It combines a close reading of literary and dramatic works with historical and political contexts paying particular attention to the three major early modern Cleopatra plays: Mary Sidney's translation of Robert Garnier's Marc Antoine Samuel Daniel's The Tragedie of Cleopatra and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. By examining these conflicting historical and fictional identities Yasmin Arshad offers a diverse and ground - breaking study of Cleopatra's infinite variety .
Title: Imagining Cleopatra Performing Gender And Power In Early Modern England
Author(s): Arshad Yasmin (Independent Scholar Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350248878
Pages: 360 Pages, 18 Bw Illus
Publication Date: 6/17/2021
Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama
Category: Shakespeare Studies & Criticism
