Serpent of Old Nile, The

Synopsis: Fourth in a six-part radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra directed by Dickon Reed. With Peter Whitman as narrator, Roy Dotrice as Antony and Maxine Audley as Cleopatra.
Part 4 of the series focuses on Cleopatra’s dilemma: ‘Can Cleopatra keep her lover now that he is under pressure from Octavius to return to Rome and do his duty to the state?' (op. cit.)
Series: Noble Romans, The
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Notes: According to programme notes, Reed used Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Romans to provide introductions for each episode and to link passages between scenes. There has been little textual editing (op. cit.).
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

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