the many faces of cleopatra - ucl early modern studies seminar

The Many Faces of Cleopatra

William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra

Charlotte Gallagheras

Daniel’s Cleopatra

UCL Centre for Early Modern ExchangesGoodenough College, 2013

Mark Rylanceat

Shakespeare’s Globe

Antony and Cleopatra dir. Giles Block (1999)

‘The key to the critical success of the Globe’s 1999 Antony and Cleopatra was the way in which Rylance’s theatrical persona and Cleopatra’s theatrical manipulations within the fiction map onto one another in Rylance’s performance.’

Bridget Escolme, ‘Mark Rylance’ in The Routledge Companion to Director’s Shakespeare ed. John Russell Brown (London: Routledge, 2008), p.417.

Harriet Walteron film

‘Shakespeare: Staging the World’The British Museum (2012)

Jonathan Bate and Dora Thornton

‘The celebrated Desdemona, slain in our presence by her husband… entreated the pity of the spectators by her very countenance.’

Henry Jackson (performance in Oxford, 1610)

Henry Peacham's illustration of lines from Titus Andronicus (c.1595)