Antony and Cleopatra

By John Russell Brown and Bridget Escolme

Book Overview

This Shakespeare Handbook offers the student of Shakespeare and the theatre a way in to reading Anthony and Cleopatra theatrically. Through analyses of key theatre and film productions, an account of the historical and theatrical conditions in which the play was first produced, and a scene-by-scene account of how the play might be approached in performance, the Handbook focuses on the exciting challenges of staging the notorious lovers and their world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403942072
• ISBN13: 9781403942074
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 7.5"