Shakespeare A to Z | Antony and Cleopatra
One of Shakespeare’s ten tragedies, Antony and Cleopatra is also one of his most complex plays. Written around 1607, relatively late in Shakespeare’s career, Antony and Cleopatra dramatizes a love affair that took place between the Roman general Marc Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, who lived in the first century B.C. In his account of their ill-fated romance, Shakespeare explores the conflict that can arise between passion and duty.
PLOT SUMMARY. The play begins around 50 B.C., when the Roman republic was ruled by a triumvirate* consisting of Antony,...
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