plays studied in Semester 1? Shakespeare’s plays have always had a hard-hitting effect on their audiences as they are often used as a vehicle to explore fears or concerns of the time. In the two tragic plays‚ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Anthony and Cleopatra’‚ Shakespeare uses mythology‚ issues of power and sexuality and in particular concentrates on the concept of ‘the other’. In this use of the term ‘the other’ we are referring to foreign elements‚ people or objects not from or associated with mainstream
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crucial character in understanding William Shakespeare’s‚ ‘Antony and Cleopatra’. Whilst the majority of Shakespeare’s characters within this play are based heavily on their descriptions as they appear in Plutarch’s‚ ‘Lives’ Enobarbus is contrastingly a character who is almost entirely formed from Shakespeare’s own imagination‚ this being testimony to Enobarbus’ dramatic necessity. He is valued not only as a subordinate officer to Mark Antony but equally as a close friend giving him a unique social
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play of Antony and Cleopatra has many suggestions on the topic of the attractions and contradictions of the political and erotic life‚ but also of the suggesting of a third kind of way of life that transcends the political and the erotic ones. Throughout the play Shakespeare presents the emotions between Antony and Cleopatra in many different ways that could be interpreted as love or even perhaps lust at times. Cleopatra was a woman of high maintenance‚ but yet she did seem to love Antony a lot as
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Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra Introduction Antony and Cleopatra is one of the great tragedies produced by William Shakespeare. The main setting of the play is the Roman Empire‚ and the plot is mainly based on the history of Octavius Caesar‚ Marc Anony and Cleopatra. This play starts after Octavius Caesar‚ Marc Antony and Lepidus become three rulers of the Roman Empire. Antony falls in love with the queen of Egypt—Cleopatra‚ and stays in Alexandria. In the play‚ the conflict between Antony and Octavius
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later works. The original 1677 production by the King’s Company starred Charles Hart as Marc Antony and Elizabeth Boutell as Cleopatra‚ with Michael Mohun as Ventidius and Katherine Corey as Octavia.[2] All for Love; also called‚ The World Well Lost is a tragedy by John Dryden‚ first acted and printed in 1677. Dryden deals in this play with the same subject as that of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Whilst‚ however‚ the elder poet "diffused the action of his play over Italy‚ Greece‚ and Egypt
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Antony and Cleopatra is a fable about the destructive duality of Antony’s character. Shakespeare uses gender bending as a device to portray Antony’s transformation from Roman to Egyptian. This transformation causes constant conflict between Antony the Roman defined by empire and duty and Antony the Egyptian defined by folly and lust. This duality finally proves to be fatal. Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare’s Roman plays. It is a tragedy about Antony one of the triumvirates who rule the
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representations and interplay of types of power: In Shakespeare’s famous play Antony and Cleopatra‚ the powerful are portrayed including their personalities‚ their reactions to other powerful figures and the interplay of these powers as the characters interact. Antony’s Power: Shakespeare uses Rome and Egypt as binary opposites not just to reflect qualities inherent in the two places‚ but the changes that come upon Antony depending on which place he is in. The changes in Antony’s behaviour and
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In Shakespeare’s tragedy/history/Roman play Antony and Cleopatra‚ we are told the story of two passionate and power-hungry lovers. In the first two Acts of the play we are introduced to some of the problems and dilemmas facing the couple (such as the fact that they are entwined in an adulterous relationship‚ and that both of them are forced to show their devotion to Caesar). Along with being introduced to Antony and Cleopatra’s strange love affair‚ we are introduced to some interesting secondary
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Agrippa and Maecenas in Act 2 Scene 3 and when Maecenas’ character tells him that “Now Antony must leave [Octavia] utterly”‚ the reply is “Never! He will not.” This shows the audience that Enobarbus’ character knows the most about Antony‚ as he is the only character who knows that Antony will never leave Cleopatra‚ and so he is the only character that is able to show the audience the scale of the tragic decline that Antony will experience. The fact that the phrase has masculine stresses on the “Never!”
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« ANTONY & CLEOPATRA »‚ SHAKESPEARE Act IV‚ Scene 14 This tragedy‚ “Antony and Cleopatra”‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ was first printed in 1623. The title itself already announces some information: first of all‚ that these two are great characters; one is a Roman triumvir‚ the other is the most famous queen of Egypt. The second main information is the duality‚ which announces a great theatrical theme and the variations between a duel and a duo. Having previously defeated Caesar in a land
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