أنطونيو وكليوباترا

This book chronicles the performance history of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's most obscure play, from 1606 to the present day. It traces the choices made by actors, directors, designers, musicians, and adapters each time they attempted to align the play's ideas about power, race, masculinity, regime change, queerness, love, aging, and delinquency with contemporary reality. Drawing on a careful study of theater records - from direction books, stage managers' reports and reviews - the book provides in-depth analyzes of fifteen international productions, including productions by such prestigious theater companies as the Royal Shakespeare Company, Citizens Theater Glasgow, Northern Broadsides, Berliner Ensemble and Tunnelgroup Amsterdam. The book concludes with a vision of the return of the black Egyptian queen Cleopatra - whose features have been obscured in theatrical performances for centuries - to the contemporary stage. In an engaging and fluid style, this book will be of interest to students, academics, actors, directors and readers in general.