Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare in Performance) - Softcover

Chillington Rutter, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1526194708 ISBN 13: 9781526194701

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2026

Synopsis

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. -- .

About this title

About the Author

Carol Chillington Rutter is Professor of English at the University of Warwick

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526194708
• ISBN 13: 9781526194701
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344