Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare in Production Series)

by William Shakespeare, Richard Madelaine

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521629041
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/24/1998
Series:	Shakespeare in Production Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

William Shakespeare lived between 1552-1616, but his work endures and is enjoyed the world over.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Table of Contents

List of productions; Introduction; Antony and Cleopatra (text plus commentary); Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...Richard Madelaine's volume...offers tantalizing gimpses of performances of the past." Shakespeare Bulletin

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