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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Friday Apr 09, 2010
Friday Apr 09, 2010
Introduction to Antony and Cleopatra as a new kind of tragedy: one which doesn't seek the freedom of complete loss or amor fati. Contrasted with Macbeth, written simultaneously. Macbeth is about the maximum of loneliness in a tragic figure; Antony and Cleopatra is about what having a friend till the end offers by way of a relationship to time and loss. Lady Macbeth compared to Lear. Antony and Cleopatra compared to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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