This Norton Critical Edition of Antony and Cleopatra is based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The edition includes an introduction, detailed explanatory annotations, two maps, and visuals ranging from a silver tetradrachm (34 BC) to an Egyptian Queen Barbie. The section "Sources, Analogues, and Contexts" provides a rich selection of historical and literary texts that help readers understand the roots of Antony and Cleopatra, from earlier writings that inspired Shakespeare, notably those by Herodotus, Plutarch, and Virgil, to later works by Chaucer, Mary Sidney (Countess of Pembroke), and Samuel Daniel. The volume is accompanied by a wide variety of early modern English perspectives on Egyptians, gypsies, and women that framed Shakespeare’s worldview and writing. The “Criticism” section includes fourteen essays representing four centuries of interpretation, from the early observations of Samuel Johnson to the Romantic readings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt, from the acute analyses of Anna Brownell Jameson to recent studies by Jonathan Gil Harris, Patricia Parker, Anston Bosman, and Ania Loomba, among others. The “Adaptations, Rewritings, and Appropriations” section reprints alternative versions of the story of Antony and Cleopatra, including one by John Dryden, a parody by F. C. Burnand, a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, and an Arabic version by Ahmad Shawqi. A Selected Bibliography is also included.