Antony and Cleopatra (1921) Yale/Appendix D

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APPENDIX D

Suggestions for Collateral Reading

Sir Thomas North: Shakespeare's Plutarch. Edited by C. F. Tucker Brooke. Vol. II. London, 1909.

John Dryden: All for Love: or, The World Well Lost. London, 1678. (Reprinted in the Variorum edition of H. H. Furness.)

Horace Howard Furness: A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Philadelphia, 1907. (Indispensable for a study of the play. In addition to the notes, full accounts of stage productions and elaborate excerpts from criticisms of the play are included.)

A. C. Bradley: Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra.' Oxford Lectures on Poetry. London, 1909.

W. Everett: Six Cleopatras. The Atlantic Monthly, February, 1905.

Mrs. Anna Jameson: Characteristics of Women. London, 1835.

S. T. Coleridge: Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and Other English Poets. London, 1846. (Reprinted in the Everyman Library.)

William Hazlitt: Characters of Shakespeare's Plays. London, 1817. (Reprinted in the Everyman Library.)

A. C. Swinburne: A Study of Shakespeare. London, 1880.

Guglielmo Ferrero: Characters and Events of Roman History from Cæsar to Nero. 'The History and Legend of Antony and Cleopatra.' New York, 1909. (An interesting study of the historical personages.)