NICHOLAS POTTER is Head of the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at Swansea Institute of Higher Education, UK. His previous publications include Shakespeare: Othello, also in the Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism series.

• Introduction: 'Like to a Vagabond Flag Upon a Stream': The Vagaries of Opinion Concerning Antony and Cleopatra'Let's Do It After the High Roman Fashion': Shakespeare's Classical WorldShakespeare's World Well Lost? Theatre in England During the Interregnum and AfterDryden's Re-Vision of Antony and CleopatraRomantics to Victorians: 'This enchanting Queen'Modernists: 'No more but e'en a woman'The Editions: 'The varying shore o' the world'The Romanness of the Roman Plays (1)The Romanness of the Roman Plays (2)Postmodernists: Antony and Cleopatra: 'A child o' the time'?Conclusion: 'Infinite Variety'?NotesSelect BibliographyIndex.