Antony and Cleopatra

Sara Munson Deats is Distinguished University Professor of English and former head of the Department of English at University of South Florida.

Acknowledgments ix1. Shakespeare’s Anamorphic Drama: A Survey of Antony and Cleopatra in Criticism, on Stage, and on Screen 2. “Above the element they lived in”: The Visual Language in Antony and Cleopatra, Acts 4 and 5 3. Passion and Politics: Antony and Cleopatra in Performance 4. Cleopatra’s Sati: Old Ideologies and Modern Stagings 5. “High events as these”: Sources, Influences, and the Artistry of Antony and Cleopatra 6. Rome and Egypt in Antony and Cleopatra and in Criticism of the Play 7. “He beats thee ’gainst the odds”: Gambling, Risk Management, and Antony and Cleopatra 8. “Cloyless Sauce”: 213The Pleasurable Politics of Food in Antony and Cleopatra 9. Cleopatra and the Myth of Scota 10. “Immortal Longings”: The Erotics of Death in Antony and Cleopatra11. Sleep, Epic, and Romance in Antony and Cleopatra 12. The Allusive Tissue of Antony and Cleopatra 13. O’erpicturing Apelles: Shakespeare’s Paragone with Painting in Antony and Cleopatra 14. Interview with Giles Block, Director of the 1999 Production of Antony and Cleopatra at Shakespeare’s Globe in London