Is Antony and Cleopatra a universally applicable tragedy that could be applicable to star-crossed lovers in any time and place? Or is the play relevant only to early Stuart thinking about the legacy of the Roman Empire? William Junker, “The Image of Both Theaters: Empire and Revelation in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra”, Shakespeare Quarterly, 66 (2015), pp. 167-87. John P. McCombe, “Cleopatra and Her Problems: T.S. Eliot and the Fetishization of Shakespeare’s Queen of the Nile”, Journal of Modern Literature, 31.2 (2008), pp. 23-38. Jennifer Park, “Discandying Cleopatra: Preserving Cleopatra’s Infinite Variety in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra”, Studies in Philology, 113 (2016), pp. 595-633. David Read, “Disappearing Act: The Role of Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra”, Studies in Philology, 110 (2013), pp. 562-83. Must also include an additional five sources.
