Antony and Cleopatra

by Carol Chillington Rutter

This book writes a performance history of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's most ambiguous play, from 1606 to the present. It observes the choices that actors, directors, designers, musicians and adapters have made each time they have brought the play's thoughts on power, race, masculinity, regime change, exoticism, love, dotage and delinquency into alignment with a new present. Informed by close attention to theatre records - promptbooks, stage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526132494
• ISBN13: 9781526132499
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"