Shakespeare and the Cleopatra/Caesar Intertext

Uniquely blending theories of literary and filmic intertextuality with issues of race and gender, and written by an experienced author trained both in early modern and film studies, this book can easily find its place in any syllabus in Shakespeare or in media studies, as well as in a wide range of cultural and literary courses.

Is William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra a sequel to the earlier Julius Caesar? If this question raises issues of authorship and reception, it also interrogates the construction of dramatic sequels: how does a playtext ultimately become the follow-up of another text? This book explores how dramatic works written before and after Shakespeare's time have encouraged us to view Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra as strongly interconnected plays, encouraging their sequelization in the theater and paving the way toward the filmic conflations of the twentieth century. Uniquely blending theories of literary and filmic intertextuality with issues of race and gender, and written by an experienced author trained both in early modern and film studies, this book can easily find its place in any syllabus in Shakespeare or in media studies, as well as in a wide range of cultural and literary courses.

Chapter 1 List of Illustrations
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1. RevisitingJulius Caesar:Antony and Cleopatra as Logical Extension of Challenging Rewriting?
Chapter 4 2. "Play it Again, Antony!": PerformingAntony and Cleopatra asJulius Caesar's sequel
Chapter 5 3. "Triple-turn'd whore!" Cleopatra in an Intertextual Triangle of Desire
Chapter 6 4. "Play it Again, Cleopatra!" Cleopatra as the Pivotal Figure in the Conflation of Plots
Chapter 7 5. "Carry on, Cleo!": From Sequel to Remake to Parody
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Chapter 9 Filmography
Chapter 10 Bibliography
Chapter 11 Index