Anne Barton obituary by Peter Holland

Shakespeare scholar whose accuracy of perception brought out the playwright's brilliance and humanityConsidering the moment when, in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra finally gets rid of the clown who has delivered the basket of figs and asps, Anne Barton wrote: "We feel that precisely because she has walked through the fire of ridicule … she has earned the right to say, 'Give me my robe, put on my crow…

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