Education Resources

Read the story of Antony and Cleopatra in plain English. If you don't want to know how it ends, don't read the last section!

Designer Stephen Brimson-Lewis worked simultaneously on both Gregory Doran's Antony and Cleopatra and Sean Holmes' Julius Caesar for the RSC in 2006. In this video interview, he talks about working on both productions.

Read an interviews with director Gregory Doran about his production of Antony and Cleopatra.

Articles published in RSC programmes for productions of Antony and Cleopatra:

Histocial context
Author Tom Holland describes the world in which the play takes place.

About Cleopatra
Author Lucy Hughes-Hallett discusses the queen known for her 'infinite variety'.

Performance history expert Rebecca Brown guides us through the stage history of Antony and Cleopatra from the time Shakespeare wrote it to the present day.