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.
The plot is based on Thomas North's 1579 English translation of Plutarch's
Lives (in Ancient Greek) and 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 triumvirs of the Second Triumvirate and the first
emperor of the Roman Empire. The tragedy is mainly set in the Roman Republic
and Ptolemaic Egypt and is characterized by swift shifts in geographical
location and linguistic register as it alternates between sensual, imaginative
Alexandria and a more pragmatic, austere Rome.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_and_Cleopatra
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