Antony and Cleopatra

Front matter\nDedication\nContents\nList of illustrations\nSeries Editors’ Preface\nPreface\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction: a play that ‘approves the common liar’\n‘That time? O times!’: the Jacobean Antony and Cleopatra\n‘Famous patterns of unlawful love’: Antony and Cleopatra, 1677–1931\n‘Wogs exit nearest way’: Glen Byam Shaw, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 1953\n‘By certain scales i’th’ pyramid’: taking the measure of Antony and Cleopatra, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1972, 1978, 1982\nBoying greatness: the Citizens’ Theatre (Glasgow), 1972, and Northern Broadsides (Halifax), 1995\n‘Back to Basics’: Peter Hall, Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, 1987\n‘Some squeaking Cleopatra’: Shakespeare’s Globe, 1999\nEstranging the crocodile: foreign Antony and Cleopatra in Britain and abroad\nRestoring blackness: Josette Bushell-Mingo’s Cleopatra, Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2005; Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘radical edit’, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Public and GableStage, 2013\nCast lists\nBibliography\nIndex