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Antony and Cleopatra has the strangest stage history of any of Shakespeare's major tragedies. Richard Madelaine explains how the play's challenging complexity has at different times inhibited or promoted its success on the stage, and accounts for the remarkable resurgence of performances in the last twenty years. Madelaine provides the only detailed, extensive and up-to-date history of the play on stage and screen, in and beyond Britain. His introduction and commentary examine the ways in which cultural factors have shaped the performance of the play, and how actors have tackled the main parts, in particular the exotic eroticism of Cleopatra. In the process he reveals not only the rich plurality of possible readings of the play, but also changing attitudes to Shakespeare.
ISBN-13

9780521629041

ISBN-10

0521629047

Weight

1.28 Pounds

Dimensions

6.00 x 0.94 x 9.00 In

List Price

$49.99

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

376 pages

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published On

1998-09-24


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