John Wilders - literary advisor to the BBC TV Shakespeare series - brings thorough scholarship and a practical understanding of performance needs to this new edition.

Clarity, accessibility and rigour are the hallmarks of an edition which will provide invaluable guidance for all its readers.

"This edition has a very helpful introduction and good clear text, as well as the exceptionally excellent and detailed notes." Dr Michael Herbert, St Andrews University

`…a useful treatment of a complex play`
Barry Gaines, University of New Mexico, Shakespeare Quarterly


Table of contents
List of illustrations
General Editors preface
Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction
- Jacobean performance
- The question of unity
- The question of structure
- The question of moral judgement
- The question of the tragic
- Language and style
- The sources
- The date of composition
- The text

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

Longer notes
Appendix: Folio lineation
Abbreviations and References
Index