(print) 191 p. ; 22 cm

I. Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Development 3 -- II. The Public and Private Worlds of Antony and Cleopatra l7 -- III. The Early History of the Public Theme : The Ideal of Order in the Henriad and Julius Caesar 51 -- IV. The Later History of the Theme : Displacement of the Ideal in Hamlet and King Lear 87 -- V. The Ideal of Order Surpassed : Resolution and Apotheosis in Antony and Cleopatra 123 -- VI. The Protean Language of the Man-made World 153 -- Postscript : The Tempest 171 -- Appendix 177 -- Bibliographic Note 181 -- Notes 185 -- Index 189