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Lady Anne discovers that the corpse of King Henry VI has begun to bleed. This is a sort of resurrection, a sort of returning to life or the physiological processes of life.
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See Barbara Ardinger, “Cleopatra on Stage: An Examination of the Persona of the Queen in English Drama, 1592–1898.” Southern Illinois University dissertation, 1976 (DA 37 [1976] 3634A), 93.
John Minshue, Ductor in Linguas, The Guide into Tongues (London: John Browne, 1617).
For further study on the ghost of King Hamlet, see Stephen Greenblatt, Hamlet in Purgatory (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002).
Quoted in John Calvin, Diuers Sermons of Master John Caluin, concerning the Diuinitie, Humanitie, and Natiuitie of our Lorde Jesus Christe (London: George Byshop, 1581), 68.
Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles, iii.690, in W. G. Boswell-Stone, Shakespeare’s Holinshed: The Chronicle and the Historical Plays Compared (New York: Longmans, 1896), 345.
William E. Burns, An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England 1657–1727 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002), 1–2.
Thomas Gataker, Thomas Gataker B.D. His Vindication of the Annotations … Jeremiah (London: J. L. for Thomas Downes, 1653), 52.
Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes … Translated out of Greeke into French by lames Amyot … and out of French into Englishe, by Thomas North (London: Thomas Vautroullier and John Wight, 1579), 1005–1006. Subsequent editions appeared in 1595 and 1603, but after analyzing the various spellings of the editions and comparing them to Shakespeare’s most scholars agree that Shakespeare consulted the 1579 edition.
For more on Shakespeare’s manipulation of his source in this scene, see, e.g., Frederick W Sternfeld, Music in Shakespearean Tragedy (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963), 222–25
John H. Long, “Antony and Cleopatra: A Double Critical Reversal,” Renaissance Papers (1964): 33.
See Ethel Seaton, “Antony and Cleopatra and the Book of Revelation,” Review of English Studies 22 (1946): 219–20.
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Cohen, A.M. (2012). The Metaphorical Use of the Prodigious Birth Tradition. In: Wonder in Shakespeare. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137011626_5
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