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Antony and Cleopatra
In this play, Rome represents the world of the rational, the logical, the carefully practical, and the puritanical. It is the world of the strong, heroic male warrior. Egypt, on the other hand,...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Language. Literary scholars maintain that Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra was written in 1606 or 1607 during the Renaissance era (1550-1660). On the other hand, Dryden's All For Love was written...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Alban's main point in the article "Antony and Cleopatra; Gorgon or Mars, Whore or Goddess" is that Shakespeare presents an oxymoronic interpretation of the characters in this tragedy. Antony and...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Antony is portrayed as a distracted and rash general whose strategies are unsound. At the beginning of the play, Philo describes Antony's eyes as those "that o’er the files and musters of the war...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Cleopatra was a strong woman who was in an extremely difficult position and tried to use the tools available to her to maintain her precarious grasp on power as long as she could. The thing you...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Originally, Antony and Octavius Caesar were sharing power, with Lepidus. When Lepidus was expelled for supposedly being disloyal, that left Antony and Caesar. Caesar was cunning, farsighted, and...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Octavius Caesar is self-assured and cunning, so he is able to take advantage of the weaknesses of others. Octavius Caesar lived up to his name. As the promising young heir to Julius Caesar,...
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Antony and Cleopatra
In the first scene, Antony and Cleopatra are arguing about Antony’s loyalties. Is Antony loyal to her, or to Rome? Antony is having an affair with Cleopatra, but he is married to Fulvia. He is...
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Antony and Cleopatra
"Emote" means which emotions the actors would display on stage when exploring the characters. There are a lot of complex things going on in this play, and it is extremely emotional. We are...
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Antony and Cleopatra
The elements of tragedy include a tragic hero, pathos, and suffering. The tragic hero in the play is Mark Antony. A tragic hero has a flaw, known as a tragic flaw, that leads to his destruction....
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Antony and Cleopatra
Cleopatra plans to commit suicide rather than be taken to Rome and paraded as a captive by Caesar. She is a queen and wants to die in a queenly manner. She obviously wants to look her best because...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Cleopatra is initially attracted to Antony because he is a strong, handsome, virile man, but mainly because he has such great power. He is one of the rulers of most of the known world. Antony is...
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Othello
William Shakespeare's "Othello" and "Antony and Cleopatra" both take similar approaches to the theme of the destructive power of overwhelming love. There are many similarities between the...
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Antony and Cleopatra
I would content that Cleopatra's death is not the climax of the tragedy. Rather, the climax occurs when Antony's naval forces surrender to Caesar in Act 3.10. Furious at the loss and convinced...
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Antony and Cleopatra
A consensus with regard to the appropriate applications of Machiavelli’s The Prince to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra is likely to remain elusive. As with much of Shakespeare’s work,...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare offers an excellent contrast between the characters of Octavius Caesar and Mark Antony in Act 2, Scene 3 of the play. Antony asks the Soothsayer whose fortunes will rise higher in the...
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Antony and Cleopatra
There are a total of forty-two scenes in Antony and Cleopatra, far more than in any of Shakespeare's other plays. The impression that the audience receives is of historical events moving at a rapid...
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Antony and Cleopatra
At the very start of Antony & Cleopatra we are told by the Roman general's own men that Antony is "not himself" because he is under the influence of Cleopatra's "witchcraft." We are soon shown...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Until Act V, Cleopatra consistently appears as a scheming courtesan who uses Antony to obtain her own ends. She tries (successfully) to dominate the Roman general in a manner that is incompatible...
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Antony and Cleopatra
As he lays dying in the final scene of Act IV, Antony advises Cleopatra to trust none of the Romans except Proculeius. Nevertheless, in the next scene, the triumphant Caesar instructs Proculeius to...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Antony is a hero of Rome. He stood up for Julius Caesar during his reign, and in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, he avenged Caesar and Rome against Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius. He is a hero...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Octavia is essentially caught in the middle of a political power struggle between Antony, her husband, and Caesar, her husband. She is a sympathetic character, though the audience mostly hears of...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Celebrating Idleness: Antony and Cleopatra The "infinite variety" of Cleopatra's pretenses affirms her allegiance to a theater that embraces idleness, and finally becomes idleness. (1) When...
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Antony and Cleopatra
I don't think it's a deliberate exaggeration on the part of Enobarbus because what Enobarbus says comes pretty much directly from Plutarch. Given that in both Plutarch and Shakespeare, we have a...
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Antony and Cleopatra
One of the key motifs, or recurring themes or structures, in this play is dominant female sexuality and its power over men. At various points in the play, male characters speak out against the...
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Antony and Cleopatra
One very direct example comes in Act 2 Scene 5. It begins at the opening of the scene, as Cleopatra seeks a partner in a game of pool (billiards), but momentarily changes her mind with this line:...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" is one of the more historically accurate of Shakespeare's plays. His original audience would have been quite familiar with the events presented in the plot, so...
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Antony and Cleopatra
It would be hard to argue whether Shakespeare intends the play to be all in all a love story, a lust fest and a lust for power.I personally think, as an ardent reader of Shakespeare that there are...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra revolves around these actual characters from Roman and Egyptian history. This is the second of Shakespeare's trilogy of Roman plays—the first was Julius...
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Antony and Cleopatra
The chorus, as a dramatic device, originates with the Greek theatre. As Enotes states: The Greek chorus comments on themes, and shows how an ideal audience might react to the drama. The chorus...
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Antony and Cleopatra
I think that there are several conditions within the statement that can be debated. In my mind, the first is that the characteristics offered are all mutually exclusive. That is to say that...
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Antony and Cleopatra
I'm not sure that Egypt dominates Act I, unless by Egypt, you mean Cleopatra, since she is Pharaoh and, as such, would have been seen as "Egypt" incarnate. However, it is certainly worth examining...
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Antony and Cleopatra
As for Shakespeare's Antony, I would have to say yes, he is responsible for his fall. At the beginning of the play, he is ruler of one third of the fledgling Roman Empire. He is "stationed" so to...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Perhaps one of the reasons this has remained unanswered is that it is not clear as to what you mean by a defective tragedy. Do we have a protagonist? Yes. In this case it is both Antony and...
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Antony and Cleopatra
I think that Shakespeare portrays her as a character somewhat in the middle of victim and predator. One could call her a victim in that Shakespeare's Cleopatra truly cares for Antony and believes...
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Antony and Cleopatra
I don't think either her past experiences or age has anything to do with turning Antony's romance into tragedy. Antony is a man caught between his duty, which includes marrying Octavia, and his...
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Antony and Cleopatra
A.C. Bradley, the great Shakespearean critic, describes Cleopatra in Oxford Lectures on Poetry as a non-dramatic and non-tragic character. This is a bit of an oxymoron as it is applied to one of...
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Antony and Cleopatra
CLEOPATRA :- If an imaginary spectrum were constructed and if Octavius Caesar were placed at one end of the spectrum, Antony would waver, swaying and shifting in the middle, and Cleopatra would be...
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Antony and Cleopatra
You need to know a little about Egyptian history and the history of the Roman Empire. As the Roman Empire expanded throughout the world, Egypt became one of the many countries taken over by Rome....
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Antony and Cleopatra
By definition, the tragic hero falls due to a flaw in his or her character. Hamlet's tragic flaw is his indecision. He had ample time to get his revenge on Claudius, his uncle, who murdered...
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Antony and Cleopatra
There are lots of clashes here--the power of woman vs. the power of man; Eastern values and thinking vs. Western values and thinking (including, but not limited to religion, values systems,...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Do you mean the clash between Egypt and Rome in the play? In the play, Antony and Cleopatra, Mark Antony is one of three rulers of Rome (Triumvir). Egypt is part of the Roman empire (do you...
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Antony and Cleopatra
I recently answered a similar question regarding the clash between Egypt and Rome, which might relate somewhat to your question (see the answer on enotes in the Antony and Cleopatra group). Antony...
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Antony and Cleopatra
The tragic story of Antony and Cleopatra is well known, and Shakespeare's version of the tale warns against overzealous love. In the first scene of the play, Philo speaks to Demetrius about...
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Antony and Cleopatra
I wasn't sure whether you were talking about the text or the movie, so here's both: Movie Version http://www.amazon.com/Antony-Cleopatra-Literary-Masterpieces-VHS/dp/078400174X Text Version: This...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Scarrus is one of Antony's most enthusiastic and martial supporters. He is thus dumbfounded when Antony abandons the sea battle against Caesar to follow the retreating Cleopatra and her ships....
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Antony and Cleopatra
In the ancient world, there were many cities. During Anthony's day, we can say that world was an urban one. A visit to modern day Turkey will show this point very clearly (Ephesus, Pergamum,...
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Antony and Cleopatra
This question needs to be on the discussion board, because it calls for an opinion rather than a factual answer. I thoroughly disagree with the premise that Antony's qualities are preferable to...
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Antony and Cleopatra
This scene is rich with metaphors and figurative language, and they foreshadow later actions in the play and the predict the end. Cleopatra talks the entire time of Antony and how she misses him...
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Antony and Cleopatra
The first bit's reasonably easy, I think: Cleo is just imagining what Antony might be doing on the other side of the world. And, thinking that he might be on his horse, she envies the horse - as he...
