Shakespeare For All

Part 3 features close-readings of three key scenes in which Antony and Cleopatra articulate their cosmic self-conception... Read more

Part 2 explores the play’s varied and conflicting perspectives on its leading characters. From the Roman point of view, ... Read more

Antony and Cleopatra, the last of Shakespeare’s Roman plays, is an epic story that begins with the material of politics ... Read more

Part 3 features close-readings of several significant scenes that show how religion, race, and literary tradition functi... Read more

Part 2 opens with a discussion of the place of Rome in Renaissance culture. It then analyzes the Roman classical sources... Read more

Shakespeare wrote numerous plays and poems engaged with ancient Roman history. Shakespeare’s Renaissance culture had anc... Read more

Part 2 begins with a discussion of the sexual violence and jealousy depicted in the play. It goes on to examine how the ... Read more

Part 3 features close-readings of three key speeches that reflect together the central structuring element of the story:... Read more

Cymbeline is an epic romance that spans British history, the Roman Empire, religious epochs, and the central themes of S... Read more

Part 3 features close-readings of three key speeches from Helen that reveal her own mingled virtues and flaws and the “r... Read more