Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare's Globe, 1999. Mark Rylance as Cleopatra.

The ultimate rejection of the image of Cleopatra as seductress may lie in having her played (however sympathetically) by a middle-aged man - though some scholars assert the part to be beyond the boy actor that Cleopatra herself specifies (5.2.220). HMR. Block/Tiramani,http://ahds.ac.uk/performing arts