Boy Cleopatra

[emily g]

i agree, imagine shakespeares confidence to have a boy actor of cleo condemning a boy playing himself?<br><br>but then, the play is more often read as a history/tragedy than performed as entertainment.

[Jessamy]

This play is so much more interesting and in some ways problematic when you read it while imaging a boy playing Cleopatra (a renaissance convention). Imagine her suicide ( a bite on the 'breast) being played by a boy! How did they do this???