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