Antony and Cleopatra Annotated

By: Shakespeare, William

Antony and Cleopatra (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first performed, by the King's Men, at either the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre in around 1607;its first appearance in print was in the Folio of 1623.Antony and Cleopatra follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Sicilian revolt to Cleopatra's suicide during the Final War of the Roman Republic. 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 characterised by swift, panoramic shifts in geographical locations and in registers, alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08QW836L4
• ISBN13: 9798582397014
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"