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Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (Illustrated) - William Shakespeare
The Complete Works of
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
VOLUME 30 OF 74
Antony and Cleopatra
Parts Edition
By Delphi Classics, 2012
Version 6
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‘Antony and Cleopatra’
William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)
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William Shakespeare: Parts Edition
This eBook is Part 30 of the Delphi Classics edition of William Shakespeare in 74 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Antony and Cleopatra from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of William Shakespeare, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
IN 74 VOLUMES
Parts Edition Contents
The Plays
1, Henry VI, Part 2
2, Henry VI, Part 3
3, Henry VI, Part 1
4, Richard III
5, The Comedy of Errors
6, Titus Andronicus
7, Taming of the Shrew
8, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
9, Love’s Labour’s Lost
10, Romeo and Juliet
11, Richard II
12, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
13, King John
14, The Merchant of Venice
15, Henry IV, Part I
16, Henry IV, Part II
17, Much Ado About Nothing
18, Henry V
19, Julius Caesar
20, As You Like It
21, Twelfth Night
22, Hamlet
23, The Merry Wives of Windsor
24, Troilus and Cressida
25, All’s Well that Ends Well
26, Measure for Measure
27, Othello
28, King Lear
29, Macbeth
30, Antony and Cleopatra
31, Coriolanus
32, Timon of Athens
33, Pericles
34, Cymbeline
35, The Winter’s Tale
36, The Tempest
37, Henry VIII
38, The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Lost Plays
39, The Lost Plays
The Sources
40, The Plays’ Sources
The Apocryphal Plays
41, Arden of Faversham
42, The Birth of Merlin
43, King Edward III
44, Locrine
45, The London Prodigal
46, The Puritan
47, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy
48, Sir John Oldcastle
49, Thomas Lord Cromwell
50, A Yorkshire Tragedy
51, Sir Thomas More
52, Fair Em
53, Mucedorus
54, The Merry Devil of Edmonton
55, Edmund Ironside
56, Thomas of Woodstock
57, Vortigern and Rowena
The Adaptations
58, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
The Poetry
59, The Sonnets
60, Venus and Adonis
61, The Rape of Lucrece
62, The Passionate Pilgrim
63, The Phoenix and the Turtle
64, A Lover’s Complaint
The Apocryphal Poetry
65, To the Queen
66, A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter
67, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
The Criticism
68, The Criticism
The Biographies
69, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear by Nicholas Rowe
70, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters by Henry Norman Hudson
71, Life of William Shakespeare by Sir Sidney Lee
72, Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London by Arthur Acheson
73, The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner
Resources
74, Resources
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Antony and Cleopatra
Believed to have been written between 1603 and 1607, this tragedy is based on Thomas North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives 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 triumviri and the future first emperor of Rome. The tragedy is a Roman play featuring swift, panoramic shifts in locations and moods, alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome.
Shakespeare’s main source text for this play is available via this link.
The tragic real life couple
‘Cleopatra’ by John William Waterhouse, 1888
CONTENTS
Dramatis Personæ
Act I. Scene I.
Act I. Scene II.
Act I. Scene III.
Act I. Scene IV.
Act I. Scene V.
Act II. Scene I.
Act II. Scene II.
Act II. Scene III.
Act II. Scene IV.
Act II. Scene V.
Act II. Scene VI.
Act II. Scene VII.
Act III. Scene I.
Act III. Scene II.
Act III. Scene III.
Act III. Scene IV.
Act III. Scene V.
Act III. Scene VI.
Act III. Scene VII.
Act III. Scene VIII.
Act III. Scene IX.
Act III. Scene X.
Act III. Scene XI.
Act IV. Scene I.
Act IV. Scene II.
Act IV. Scene III.
Act IV. Scene IV.
Act IV. Scene V.
Act IV. Scene VI.
Act IV. Scene VII.
Act IV. Scene VIII.
Act IV. Scene IX.
Act IV. Scene X.
Act IV. Scene XI.
Act IV. Scene XII.
Act IV. Scene XIII.
Act V. Scene I.
Act V. Scene II.
Dramatis Personæ
MARK ANTONY, OCTAVIUS CÆSAR, & M. ÆMILIUS LEPIDUS: Triumvirs.
SEXTUS POMPEIUS.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, VENTIDIUS, EROS, SCARUS, DERCETAS, DEMETRIUS, & PHILO: Friends to Antony.
MECÆNAS, AGRIPPA, DOLABELLA, PROCULEIUS, THYREUS, & GALLUS: Friends to Cæsar.
MENAS, MENECRATES, & VARRIUS: Friends to Pompey.
TAURUS, Lieutenant-General to Cæsar.
CANIDIUS, Lieutenant-General to Antony.
SILIUS, an Officer under Ventidius.
EUPHRONIUS, Ambassador from Antony to Cæsar.
ALEXAS, MARDIAN, SELEUCUS, & DIOMEDES: Attendants on Cleopatra.
A Soothsayer.
A Clown.
CLEOPATRA, Queen of Egypt.
OCTAVIA, sister to Cæsar, and wife to Antony.
CHARMIAN & IRAS, Attendants on Cleopatra.
Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants.
SCENE. — In several parts of the Roman Empire.
Act I. Scene I.
Alexandria. A Room in CLEOPATRA’S Palace.
Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO.
Phi. Nay, but this dotage of our general’s
O’erflows the measure; those his goodly eyes,
That o’er the files and musters of the war 5
Have glow’d like plated Mars, now bend, now turn
The office and devotion of their view
Upon a tawny front; his captain’s heart,
Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst
The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper, 10
And is become the bellows and the fan
To cool a gipsy’s lust. Look! where they come.
Flourish. Enter ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, with their Trains; Eunuchs fanning her.
Take but good note, and you shall see in him
The triple pillar of the world transform’d 15
Into a strumpet’s fool; behold and see.
Cleo. If it be love indeed, tell me how much.
Ant. There’s beggary in the love that can be reckon’d.
Cleo. I’ll set a bourn how far to be belov’d.
Ant. Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth. 20
Enter an Attendant.
Att. News, my good lord, from Rome.
Ant. Grates me; the sum.
Cleo. Nay, hear them, Antony:
Fulvia, perchance, is angry; or, who knows 25
If the scarce-bearded Cæsar have not sent
His powerful mandate to you, ‘Do this, or this;
Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that;
Perform ‘t, or else we damn thee.’
Ant. How, my love! 30
Cleo. Perchance! nay, and most like;
You must not stay here longer; your dismission
Is come from Cæsar; therefore hear it, Antony.
Where’s Fulvia’s process? Cæsar’s I would say? both?
Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt’s queen, 35
Thou blushest, Antony, and that blood of thine
Is Cæsar’s homager; else so thy cheek pays shame
When shrill-tongu’d Fulvia scolds. The messengers!
Ant. Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
Of the rang’d empire fall! Here is my space. 40
Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike
Feeds beast as man; the nobleness of life
Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair [Embracing.
And such a twain can do ‘t, in which I bind,
On pain of punishment, the world to weet 45
We stand up peerless.
Cleo. Excellent falsehood!
Why did he marry Fulvia and not love her?
I’ll seem the fool I am not; Antony
Will be himself. 50
Ant. But stirr’d by Cleopatra.
Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours,
Let’s not confound the time with conference harsh:
There’s not a minute of our lives should