Category: Antony and Cleopatra

Thank you to Sean Keilen for returning to introduce Antony and Cleopatra.

Sean Keilen is Professor of Literature and Director of Shakespeare Workshop at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature (Yale 2006) and an editor of The Forms of Renaissance Thought: New Essays in Literature and Culture(Palgrave 2009), as well as ten volumes of Shakespeare criticism, Shakespeare: The Critical Complex (Garland 1999). In 2017, he published The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature with Nick Moschovakis. Professor Keilen’s research has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Huntington Library. 

Many thanks to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.

Here are some resources to help guide your way into Antony and Cleopatra:

• Resources, character map, and infographic from Course Hero.
• Read a synopsis from the Shakespeare Resource Center, or watch synopses from the Royal Shakespeare Company or Overly Sarcastic Productions.
• Listen to a complete audiobook recording of the play.
• Watch a complete 1974 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Antony and Cleopatra.

Thanks for Dan Hainsworth for letting us use his Shakespeare icons, as shown above right.

Enjoy these images of Antony and Cleopatra from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Find more here.