PowerPoint used for an UCL MA in Early Modern Studies seminar on representations of Cleopatra in Early Modern England.

1. The Many Faces of Cleopatra
William Shakespeare’s
Antony and Cleopatra

2. Charlotte Gallagher
as
Daniel’s Cleopatra
UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges
Goodenough College, 2013

4. Mark Rylance
at
Shakespeare’s Globe
Antony and Cleopatra dir. Giles Block (1999)

6. ‘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.

9. Harriet Walter
on film
‘Shakespeare: Staging the World’
The British Museum (2012)
Jonathan Bate and Dora Thornton

11. ‘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)

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