Carol Chillington Rutter is Professor of Shakespeare and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick

• Introduction: A play that ‘approves the common liar’1 ‘That time? O times!’: The Jacobean Antony and Cleopatra 2 ‘Famous patterns of unlawful love’: Antony and Cleopatra, 1677–19313 ‘Wogs exit nearest way’: Glen Byam Shaw, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 19534 ‘By certain scales i’th’ pyramid’: Taking the Measure of Antony and Cleopatra, Royal Shakespeare Company 1972, 1978, 19825 Boying Greatness: The Citizens’ Theatre (Glasgow), 1972 and Northern Broadsides (Halifax), 19956 ‘Back to Basics’: Peter Hall, Olivier Theatre, National Theatre 19877 ‘Some Squeaking Cleopatra’: Shakespeare’s Globe, 19998 Estranging the crocodile: Foreign Antony and Cleopatra in Britain and abroad9 Restoring blackness: Josette Bushell-Mingo’s Cleopatra, Royal Exchange Manchester (2005); Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘Radical Edit’, RST, The Public, and GableStage (2013)Cast listsBibliography

Carol Chillington Rutter is Professor of Shakespeare and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick

• Introduction: A play that ‘approves the common liar’1 ‘That time? O times!’: The Jacobean Antony and Cleopatra 2 ‘Famous patterns of unlawful love’: Antony and Cleopatra, 1677–19313 ‘Wogs exit nearest way’: Glen Byam Shaw, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 19534 ‘By certain scales i’th’ pyramid’: Taking the Measure of Antony and Cleopatra, Royal Shakespeare Company 1972, 1978, 19825 Boying Greatness: The Citizens’ Theatre (Glasgow), 1972 and Northern Broadsides (Halifax), 19956 ‘Back to Basics’: Peter Hall, Olivier Theatre, National Theatre 19877 ‘Some Squeaking Cleopatra’: Shakespeare’s Globe, 19998 Estranging the crocodile: Foreign Antony and Cleopatra in Britain and abroad9 Restoring blackness: Josette Bushell-Mingo’s Cleopatra, Royal Exchange Manchester (2005); Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘Radical Edit’, RST, The Public, and GableStage (2013)Cast listsBibliography

Carol Chillington Rutter is Professor of Shakespeare and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick

• Introduction: A play that ‘approves the common liar’1 ‘That time? O times!’: The Jacobean Antony and Cleopatra 2 ‘Famous patterns of unlawful love’: Antony and Cleopatra, 1677–19313 ‘Wogs exit nearest way’: Glen Byam Shaw, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 19534 ‘By certain scales i’th’ pyramid’: Taking the Measure of Antony and Cleopatra, Royal Shakespeare Company 1972, 1978, 19825 Boying Greatness: The Citizens’ Theatre (Glasgow), 1972 and Northern Broadsides (Halifax), 19956 ‘Back to Basics’: Peter Hall, Olivier Theatre, National Theatre 19877 ‘Some Squeaking Cleopatra’: Shakespeare’s Globe, 19998 Estranging the crocodile: Foreign Antony and Cleopatra in Britain and abroad9 Restoring blackness: Josette Bushell-Mingo’s Cleopatra, Royal Exchange Manchester (2005); Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘Radical Edit’, RST, The Public, and GableStage (2013)Cast listsBibliography