num_pages: 376
description: Richard Madelaine explains how the challenging complexity of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra has at different times inhibited or promoted its success on the stage, and accounts for the remarkable resurgence of performances in the past twenty years. His introduction and commentary, presented alongside the New Cambridge edition of the text, provide the most detailed, extensive and up-to-date history of the play on stage and screen, in and beyond Britain. In the process he reveals not only the rich plurality of possible readings of the play, but also changing attitudes to Shakespeare.
language: English
title: Antony and Cleopatra
titlecomplete: Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare in Production)
characters: Marcus Antonius, Cleopatra, Augustus, Domitius Enobarbus
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Poetry, Drama, School, Romance, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 38127
places: Egypt, Rome, Italy, Alexandria, Roman Empire
publisher: Cambridge University Press