The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra E-Book

William Shakespeare

• Herausgeber: William Shakespeare
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

For other uses, see Antony and Cleopatra (disambiguation). The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1884 Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was probably performed first in about 1607 at Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre by the King's Men. Its first known appearance in print was in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives 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 triumviri of the Second Triumvirate and the first emperor of the Roman Empire. The tragedy is set in Rome and Egypt, characterised by swift, panoramic shifts in geographical locations and in registers, alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome. Many consider Cleopatra one of the most complex female characters in Shakespeare's body of work.She is frequently vain and histrionic, almost provoking an audience to scorn; at the same time, Shakespeare's efforts invest both her and Antony with tragic grandeur. These contradictory features have led to famously divided critical responses. It is difficult to classify Antony and Cleopatra as belonging to a single genre. It can be described as a history play (though it does not completely adhere to historical account), tragedy (though not completely in Aristotelian terms), comedy, and a romance (font:Wikipedia)

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The TragedyofAntony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

Table of Contents

Characters of the Play

Act I

Scene I. Alexandria. A room in Cleopatra’s palace.

Scene II. The same. Another room.

Scene III. The same. Another room.

Scene IV. Rome. Octavius Caesar’s house.

Scene V. Alexandria. Cleopatra’s palace.

Act II

Scene I. Messina. Pompey’s house.

Scene II. Rome. The house of Lepidus.

Scene III. The same. Octavius Caesar’s house.

Scene IV. The same. A street.

Scene V. Alexandria. Cleopatra’s palace.

Scene VI. Near Misenum.

Scene VII. On board Pompey’s galley, off Misenum.

Act III

Scene I. A plain in Syria.

Scene II. Rome. An ante-chamber in Octavius Caesar’s house.

Scene III. Alexandria. Cleopatra’s palace.

Scene IV. Athens. A room in Mark Antony’s house.

Scene V. The same. Another room.

Scene VI. Rome. Octavius Caesar’s house.

Scene VII. Near Actium. Mark Antony’s camp.

Scene VIII. A plain near Actium.

Scene IX. Another part of the plain.

Scene X. Another part of the plain.

Scene XI. Alexandria. Cleopatra’s palace.

Scene XII. Egypt. Octavius Caesar’s camp.

Scene XIII. Alexandria. Cleopatra’s palace.

Act IV

Scene I. Before Alexandria. Octavius Caesar’s camp.

Scene II. Alexandria. Cleopatra’s palace.

Scene III. The same. Before the palace.

Scene IV. The same. A room in the palace.

Scene V. Alexandria. Mark Antony’s camp.

Scene VI. Alexandria. Octavius Caesar’s camp.

Scene VII. Field of battle between the camps.

Scene VIII. Under the walls of Alexandria.

Scene IX. Octavius Caesar’s camp.

Scene X. Between the two camps.

Scene XI. Another part of the same.

Scene XII. Another part of the same.

Scene XIII. Alexandria. Cleopatra’s palace.

Scene XIV. The same. Another room.

Scene XV. The same. A monument.

Act V

Scene I. Alexandria. Octavius Caesar’s camp.

Scene II. Alexandria. A room in the monument.

Characters of the Play

Mark Antony, Octavius Caesar and Lepidus, triumvirs.

Sextus Pompeius (Pompey)

Domitius Enobarbus, Ventidius, Eros, Scarus, Dercetas, Demetrius, Philo, friends to Antony.