ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA - RSC Shakespeare

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's immortal love storyTHIS BOOK INCLUDES:- An introduction to Antony and Cleopatra by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate- The play - with clear explanatory notes on each page - A helpful scene-by-scene analysis- An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre- An exploration of the notorious challenges to staging The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or to participate in it. This book presents a historical overview of Antony and Cleopatra in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading directors - Adrian Noble, Braham Murray and Gregory Doran - so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.