Antony and Cleopatra

di Carol Chillington Rutter (Autore)

Manchester University Press, 2026

This book writes a performance history of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s most ambiguous play, from 1606 to the present. It observes the choices that actors, directors, designers, musicians and adapters have made each time they have brought the play’s thoughts on power, race, masculinity, regime change, exoticism, love, dotage and delinquency into alignment with a new present. Informed by close attention to theatre records – promptbooks, stage managers’ reports, reviews – it offers in-depth analyses of fifteen international productions by (among others) the Royal Shakespeare Company, Citizens Theatre Glasgow, Northern Broadsides, Berliner Ensemble and Toneelgroep Amsterdam. It ends seeing Shakespeare’s black Egyptian Queen Cleopatra – whited-out in performance for centuries – restored to the contemporary stage. Written in a lively and accessible style, this book will be of interest to students, academics, actors, directors and general readers alike. -- .

• Autore: Carol Chillington Rutter
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Collana: Shakespeare in Performance
• Anno: 2026
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 344 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 402 gr.
• EAN: 9781526194701

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