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    Antony and Cleopatra, with line numbers
    Antony and Cleopatra, with line numbers
    Antony and Cleopatra, with line numbers
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    Antony and Cleopatra, with line numbers

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    The classic tragedy. According to Wikipedia: "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.["
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455389513
    Antony and Cleopatra, with line numbers
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest dramatist in the English language. Shakespeare is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon.”  

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      Antony and Cleopatra, with line numbers - William Shakespeare

      Antony And Cleopatra By William Shakespeare

      published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

      established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

      Other tragedies by William Shakespeare:

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      Dramatis Personae

      Antony And Cleopatra

      Act I

      Scene I Alexandria. A room in Cleopatra's palace.

      Scene II The same. Another room.

      Scene III The same. Another room.

      Scene IV Rome. Octavius Caesar's house.

      Scene V Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace.

      Act II

      Scene I Messina. Pompey's house.

      Scene II Rome. The house of Lepidus.

      Scene III The same. Octavius Caesar's house.

      Scene IV The same. A street.

      Scene V Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace.

      Scene VI Near Misenum.

      Scene VII On board Pompey's galley, off Misenum.

      Act III

      Scene I A plain in Syria.

      Scene II Rome. An ante-chamber in Octavius Caesar's house.

      Scene III Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace.

      Scene IV Athens. A room in Mark Antony's house.

      Scene V The same. Another room.

      Scene VI Rome. Octavius Caesar's house.

      Scene VII Near Actium. Mark Antony's camp.

      Scene VIII A plain near Actium.

      Scene IX Another part of the plain.

      Scene X Another part of the plain.

      Scene XI Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace.

      Scene XII Egypt. Octavius Caesar's camp.

      Scene XIII Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace.

      Act IV

      Scene I Before Alexandria. Octavius Caesar's camp.

      Scene II Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace.

      Scene III The same. Before the palace.

      Scene IV The same. A room in the palace.

      Scene V Alexandria. Mark Antony's camp.

      Scene VI Alexandria. Octavius Caesar's camp.

      Scene VII Field of battle between the camps.

      Scene VIII Under the walls of Alexandria.

      Scene IX Octavius Caesar's camp.

      Scene X Between the two camps.

      Scene XI Another part of the same.

      Scene XII Another part of the same.

      Scene XIII Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace.

      Scene XIV The same. Another room.

      Scene XV The same. A monument.

      Act V

      Scene I Alexandria. Octavius Caesar's camp.

      Scene II Alexandria. A room in the monument.

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      Triumvirs

      Mark Antony

      Octavius Caesar

      M. Aemilius

      Lepidus (Lepidus:) |

      Sextus Pompeius (Pompey:)

      Friends To Antony

      Domitius Enobarbus

      Ventidius

      Eros

      Scarus

      Dercetas

      Demetrius

      Philo |

      Friends To Caesar

      Mecaenas

      Agrippa

      Dolabella

      Proculeius

      Thyreus

      Gallus

      Friends To Pompey

      Menas

      Menecrates

      Varrius

      Taurus, Lieutenant-General To Caesar.

      Canidius, Lieutenant-General To Antony.

      Silius, An Officer In Ventidius's Army.

      Euphronius, An Ambassador From Antony To Caesar.

      Attendants On Cleopatra

      Alexas

      Mardian, A Eunuch.

      Seleucus

      Diomedes|

      A Soothsayer. (Soothsayer:)

      A Clown. (Clown:)

      Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt.

      Octavia, Sister To Caesar And Wife To Antony.

      Attendants On Cleopatra

      Charmian

      Iras

       Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants.

       (First Officer:)

       (Second Officer:)

       (Third Officer:)

       (Messenger:)

       (Second Messenger:)

       (First Servant:)

       (Second Servant:)

       (Egyptian:)

       (Guard:)

       (First Guard:)

       (Second Guard:)

       (Attendant:)

       (First Attendant:)

       (Second Attendant:)

      SCENE In several parts of the Roman empire.

      ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

      ACT I

      SCENE I Alexandria. A room in Cleopatra's palace.

       [Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO]

      (1) PHILO 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

       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,

       And is become the bellows and the fan

       To cool a gipsy's lust.

       [Flourish. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, her Ladies,

       the Train, with Eunuchs fanning her]

      (10)    Look, where they come:

       Take but good note, and you shall see in him.

       The triple pillar of the world transform'd

       Into a strumpet's fool: behold and see.

      CLEOPATRA If it be love indeed, tell me how much.

      MARK ANTONY There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

      CLEOPATRA I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.

      MARK ANTONY Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.

       [Enter an ATTENDANT]

      ATTENDANT News, my good lord, from Rome.

      MARK ANTONY Grates me: the sum.

      CLEOPATRA Nay, hear them, Antony:

      (20) Fulvia perchance is angry; or, who knows

       If the scarce-bearded Caesar 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.'

      MARK ANTONY How, my love!

      CLEOPATRA Perchance! nay, and most like:

       You must not stay here longer, your dismission

       Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony.

       Where's Fulvia's process? Caesar's I would say? both?

       Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen,

      (30) Thou blushest, Antony; and that blood of thine

       Is Caesar's homager: else so thy cheek pays shame

       When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers!

      MARK ANTONY Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch

       Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.

       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

       We stand up peerless.

      (40) CLEOPATRA Excellent falsehood!

       Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her?

       I'll seem the fool I am not; Antony

       Will be himself.

      MARK ANTONY                   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 stretch

       Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight?

      CLEOPATRA Hear the ambassadors.

      MARK ANTONY Fie, wrangling queen!

       Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh,

      (50) To weep; whose every passion fully strives

       To make itself, in thee, fair and admired!

       No messenger, but thine; and all alone

       To-night we'll wander through the streets and note

       The qualities of people. Come, my queen;

       Last night you did desire it: speak not to us.

       [Exeunt MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA with

       their train]

      DEMETRIUS Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight?

      PHILO Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony,

       He comes too short of that great property

       Which still should go with Antony.

      DEMETRIUS I am full sorry

      (60) That he approves the common liar, who

       Thus speaks of him at Rome: but I will hope

       Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy!

       [Exeunt]

      SCENE II The same. Another room.

       [Enter CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a SOOTHSAYER]

      (1) CHARMIAN Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most any thing Alexas,

       almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer

       that you praised so to the queen? O, that I knew

       this husband, which, you say, must charge his horns

       with garlands!

      ALEXAS Soothsayer!

      SOOTHSAYER Your will?

      CHARMIAN Is this the man? Is't you, sir, that know things?

      SOOTHSAYER In nature's infinite book of secrecy

       A little I can read.

      (10) ALEXAS Show him your hand.

       [Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]

      DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough

       Cleopatra's health to drink.

      CHARMIAN Good sir, give me good fortune.

      SOOTHSAYER I make not, but foresee.

      CHARMIAN Pray, then, foresee me one.

      SOOTHSAYER You shall be yet far fairer than you are.

      CHARMIAN He means in flesh.

      IRAS No, you shall paint when you are old.

      CHARMIAN Wrinkles forbid!

      (20) ALEXAS Vex not his prescience; be attentive.

      CHARMIAN Hush!

      SOOTHSAYER You shall be more beloving than beloved.

      CHARMIAN I had rather heat my liver with drinking.

      ALEXAS Nay, hear him.

      CHARMIAN Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be married

       to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all:

       let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of Jewry

       may do homage: find me to marry me with Octavius

      (30) Caesar, and companion me with my mistress.

      SOOTHSAYER You shall outlive the lady whom you serve.

      CHARMIAN O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

      SOOTHSAYER You have seen and proved a fairer former fortune

       Than that which is to approach.

      CHARMIAN Then belike my children shall have no names:

       prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have?

      SOOTHSAYER If every of your wishes had a womb.

       And fertile every wish, a million.

      (40) CHARMIAN Out, fool! I forgive thee for a witch.

      ALEXAS You think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes.

      CHARMIAN Nay, come, tell Iras hers.

      ALEXAS We'll know all our

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