Shakespeare Criticism
Cantor has published extensively on Shakespeare. In Shakespeare's Rome (1974), a revision of his doctoral thesis, he analyzes Shakespeare's Roman plays and contrasts the austere, republican mentality of Coriolanus with the bibulous and erotic energies of Antony and Cleopatra. In Shakespeare: Hamlet (1989), he depicts Hamlet as man torn between pagan and Christian conceptions of heroism. In his articles on Macbeth, he analyzes "the Scottish play" using similar polarities. Cantor has also published articles on many other Shakespeare plays, including The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Othello, King Lear, Timon of Athens, and The Tempest.
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