Antony And Cleopatra
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Antony And Cleopatra Details
Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Markus Antonius and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumvirs and the future first emperor of Rome. The tragedy is a Roman play characterized by swift, panoramic shifts in geographical locations and in registers, alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome.Many consider the role of Cleopatra in this play one of the most complex female roles in Shakespeare's work. She is frequently vain and histrionic, provoking an audience almost to scorn; at the same time, Shakespeare's efforts invest both her and Antony with tragic grandeur. These contradictory features have led to famously divided critical responses. -- from Wikipedia
Reviews
Hopefully this is an accurate production of the play. I bought this book in hopes of some decent analysis since it was advertised as scene by scene. The slim analysis is horribly written, full of grammar mistakes and misleading.It may be an interpretation from some other language. I don't know but I am shocked that Amazon would even sell something this poorly done.