In fact, Shakespeare has given us less a stage play than a movie script; and the camera might do almost as much for Antony and Cleopatra as it did for Olivier's screen version of Henry V.

and Cleopatra returns to Egypt. When Mark Antony (Richard Burton), Caesar's protégé, beholds Cleopatra aboard her elaborate barge at Tarsus some years later, he is smitten and becomes both her ...