All for Love (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Dryden
- First Published: 1678
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: First century
- Setting: Alexandria, Egypt
- Principal Characters: Mark Antony, Ventidius, Dolabella, Octavia, Cleopatra, Alexas
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Love or romance, Suicide, War, Egypt or Egyptians, Greek or Roman times, Rome
- Locales: Egypt, ancient, Alexandria, Egypt
The Story:
After his humiliating defeat at Actium, Mark Antony retired to Alexandria, Egypt, where he remained in seclusion for some time in the temple of Isis. He avoided meeting his mistress, Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt, whose cowardice had largely caused the defeat. Meanwhile the Romans, under Octavius, Maecenas, and Agrippa, had invaded Egypt, where, having laid siege to Alexandria, they calmly awaited Antony’s next move. Serapion, a patriot and a priest of Isis, became alarmed at a sudden rising of the Nile and by prodigious disturbances among the royal tombs; these...
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