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, 1677-1931
3 'Wogs exit nearest way': Glen Byam Shaw, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 1953
4 'By certain scales i'th' pyramid': Taking the Measure of Antony and Cleopatra, Royal Shakespeare Company 1972, 1978, 1982
5 Boying Greatness: The Citizens' Theatre (Glasgow), 1972 and Northern Broadsides (Halifax), 1995
6 'Back to Basics': Peter Hall, Olivier Theatre, National Theatre 1987
7 'Some Squeaking Cleopatra': Shakespeare's Globe, 1999
8 Estranging the crocodile: Foreign Antony and Cleopatra in Britain and abroad
9 Restoring blackness: Josette Bushell-Mingo's Cleopatra, Royal Exchange Manchester (2005); Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Radical Edit', RST, The Public, and GableStage (2013)

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