Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra has the strangest stage history of any of Shakespeare's major tragedies. The author explains how the play's challenging complexity has at different times inhibited or promoted its success on the stage, and accounts for the remarkable resurgence of performances in the last twenty years. He provides the only detailed, extensive and up-to-date history of the play on stage and screen, in and beyond Britain. His introduction and commentary examine the ways in which cultural factors have shaped the performance of the play, and how actors have tackled the main parts, in particular the exotic eroticism of Cleopatra. In the process he reveals not only the rich plurality of possible readings of the play, but also changing attitudes to Shakespeare
Print Book, English, 1998
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1998
tragedies
xvi, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521443067, 9780521629041, 0521443067, 0521629047
37155183
List of productions; Introduction; Antony and Cleopatra (text plus commentary); Bibliography; Index.
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