Antony and Cleopatra (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526132499)

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 managers' reports, reviews - it offers in-depth analyses of fifteen international productions by (among others) the Royal Shakespeare Company, Citizens Theatre Glasgow, Northern Broadsides, Berliner Ensemble and Toneelgroep Amsterdam. It ends seeing Shakespeare's black Egyptian Queen Cleopatra - whited-out in performance for centuries - restored to the contemporary stage. Written in a lively and accessible style, this book will be of interest to students, academics, actors, directors and general readers alike.

Author: Carol Chillington Rutter
ISBN-10: 1526132494
ISBN-13: 9781526132499
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/14/2020
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2021