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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 76
IS  - 326
T2  - Review of English Studies
SP  - 380-95
ID  - bbbp2
T1  - "The Failing Messengers of Antony and Cleopatra." 
AU  - Hartmann, Anna-Maria
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2026
DO  - 10.1093/res/hgaf052
LA  - English
AB  - Contends that series of failed messengers across Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra are fundamental to how Shakespeare engages with the play’s genre by negotiating its relationship with classical and neoclassical tragedy. Asserts that Shakespeare employs the nuntius as an aspect of his dramaturgy to imply a larger imagined world beyond what is shown in a staged performance. Concludes with a close reading of the messenger missing from Antony’s death scene, modelled on a messenger missing from Sophocles’s Ajax, whose erasure allows Shakespeare to achieve the generically complicated representation of Antony’s performed death. English summary, 380.
ER  -