Special Intrbduction to the play by the editor Barbara Everett, Somerville College, Oxford General discussion of Shakespeare’s life, world, and theater by the general ediror of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University.
Source from which Shakespeare derived Antony and Cleopatra, Plutarch: from the Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, translated by Sir Thomas North.
Dramatic criticism fiom the past and Dresent: commentaries by Samuel Johnson, A.C. Bradley, John F. Danby, Janet Adelman.
A new, comprehensive-stage history by S. Schoenbaum of notable actors, directors, and productions of Antony and Cleopatra, then and now.
Text and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable type. Detailed footnotes at the bottom of each pase of the play keyed to the numbered lines of the text.