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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare’.

    Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Shakespeare includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781786562982
    Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (Illustrated)
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    William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest dramatist in the English language. Shakespeare is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon.”  

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      Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (Illustrated) - William Shakespeare

      The Complete Works of

      WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

      VOLUME 30 OF 74

      Antony and Cleopatra

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2012

      Version 6

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Antony and Cleopatra’

      William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78656 298 2

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

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      www.delphiclassics.com

      William Shakespeare: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 30 of the Delphi Classics edition of William Shakespeare in 74 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Antony and Cleopatra from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of William Shakespeare, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of William Shakespeare or the Complete Works of William Shakespeare in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

      IN 74 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Plays

      1, Henry  VI, Part 2

      2, Henry  VI, Part 3

      3, Henry  VI, Part 1

      4, Richard  III

      5, The Comedy of Errors

      6, Titus Andronicus

      7, Taming of the Shrew

      8, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

      9, Love’s Labour’s Lost

      10, Romeo and Juliet

      11, Richard II

      12, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

      13, King John

      14, The Merchant of Venice

      15, Henry IV, Part I

      16, Henry IV, Part II

      17, Much Ado About Nothing

      18, Henry V

      19, Julius Caesar

      20, As You Like It

      21, Twelfth Night

      22, Hamlet

      23, The Merry Wives of Windsor

      24, Troilus and Cressida

      25, All’s Well that Ends Well

      26, Measure for Measure

      27, Othello

      28, King Lear

      29, Macbeth

      30, Antony and Cleopatra

      31, Coriolanus

      32, Timon of Athens

      33, Pericles

      34, Cymbeline

      35, The Winter’s Tale

      36, The Tempest

      37, Henry  VIII

      38, The Two Noble Kinsmen

      The Lost Plays

      39, The Lost Plays

      The Sources

      40, The Plays’ Sources

      The Apocryphal Plays

      41, Arden of Faversham

      42, The Birth of Merlin

      43, King Edward  III

      44, Locrine

      45, The London Prodigal

      46, The Puritan

      47, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy

      48, Sir John Oldcastle

      49, Thomas Lord Cromwell

      50, A Yorkshire Tragedy

      51, Sir Thomas More

      52, Fair Em

      53, Mucedorus

      54, The Merry Devil of Edmonton

      55, Edmund Ironside

      56, Thomas of Woodstock

      57, Vortigern and Rowena

      The Adaptations

      58, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

      The Poetry

      59, The Sonnets

      60, Venus and Adonis

      61, The Rape of Lucrece

      62, The Passionate Pilgrim

      63, The Phoenix and the Turtle

      64, A Lover’s Complaint

      The Apocryphal Poetry

      65, To the Queen

      66, A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter

      67, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music

      The Criticism

      68, The Criticism

      The Biographies

      69, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear by Nicholas Rowe

      70, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters by Henry Norman Hudson

      71, Life of William Shakespeare by Sir Sidney Lee

      72, Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London by Arthur Acheson

      73, The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner

      Resources

      74, Resources

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      Antony and Cleopatra

      Believed to have been written between 1603 and 1607, this tragedy 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 Parthian War to Cleopatra’s suicide. 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 featuring swift, panoramic shifts in locations and moods, alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome.

      Shakespeare’s main source text for this play is available via this link.

      The tragic real life couple

      ‘Cleopatra’ by John William Waterhouse, 1888

      CONTENTS

      Dramatis Personæ

      Act I. Scene I.

      Act I. Scene II.

      Act I. Scene III.

      Act I. Scene IV.

      Act I. Scene V.

      Act II. Scene I.

      Act II. Scene II.

      Act II. Scene III.

      Act II. Scene IV.

      Act II. Scene V.

      Act II. Scene VI.

      Act II. Scene VII.

      Act III. Scene I.

      Act III. Scene II.

      Act III. Scene III.

      Act III. Scene IV.

      Act III. Scene V.

      Act III. Scene VI.

      Act III. Scene VII.

      Act III. Scene VIII.

      Act III. Scene IX.

      Act III. Scene X.

      Act III. Scene XI.

      Act IV. Scene I.

      Act IV. Scene II.

      Act IV. Scene III.

      Act IV. Scene IV.

      Act IV. Scene V.

      Act IV. Scene VI.

      Act IV. Scene VII.

      Act IV. Scene VIII.

      Act IV. Scene IX.

      Act IV. Scene X.

      Act IV. Scene XI.

      Act IV. Scene XII.

      Act IV. Scene XIII.

      Act V. Scene I.

      Act V. Scene II.

      Dramatis Personæ

      MARK ANTONY, OCTAVIUS CÆSAR, & M. ÆMILIUS LEPIDUS: Triumvirs.

      SEXTUS POMPEIUS.

      DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, VENTIDIUS, EROS, SCARUS, DERCETAS, DEMETRIUS, & PHILO: Friends to Antony.

      MECÆNAS, AGRIPPA, DOLABELLA, PROCULEIUS, THYREUS, & GALLUS: Friends to Cæsar.

      MENAS, MENECRATES, & VARRIUS: Friends to Pompey.

      TAURUS, Lieutenant-General to Cæsar.

      CANIDIUS, Lieutenant-General to Antony.

      SILIUS, an Officer under Ventidius.

      EUPHRONIUS, Ambassador from Antony to Cæsar.

      ALEXAS, MARDIAN, SELEUCUS, & DIOMEDES: Attendants on Cleopatra.

      A Soothsayer.

      A Clown.

      CLEOPATRA, Queen of Egypt.

      OCTAVIA, sister to Cæsar, and wife to Antony.

      CHARMIAN & IRAS, Attendants on Cleopatra.

      Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants.

      SCENE. — In several parts of the Roman Empire.

      Act I. Scene I.

      Alexandria.  A Room in CLEOPATRA’S Palace.

      Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO.

      Phi.  Nay, but this dotage of our general’s

      O’erflows the measure; those his goodly eyes,

      That o’er the files and musters of the war   5

      Have glow’d like plated Mars, now bend, now turn

      The office and devotion of their view

      Upon a tawny front; his captain’s heart,

      Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst

      The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,   10

      And is become the bellows and the fan

      To cool a gipsy’s lust. Look! where they come.

      Flourish.  Enter ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, with their Trains; Eunuchs fanning her.

      Take but good note, and you shall see in him

      The triple pillar of the world transform’d   15

      Into a strumpet’s fool; behold and see.

      Cleo.  If it be love indeed, tell me how much.

      Ant.  There’s beggary in the love that can be reckon’d.

      Cleo.  I’ll set a bourn how far to be belov’d.

      Ant.  Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.   20

      Enter an Attendant.

      Att.  News, my good lord, from Rome.

      Ant.        Grates me; the sum.

      Cleo.  Nay, hear them, Antony:

      Fulvia, perchance, is angry; or, who knows   25

      If the scarce-bearded Cæsar have not sent

      His powerful mandate to you, ‘Do this, or this;

      Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that;

      Perform ‘t, or else we damn thee.’

      Ant.        How, my love!   30

      Cleo.  Perchance! nay, and most like;

      You must not stay here longer; your dismission

      Is come from Cæsar; therefore hear it, Antony.

      Where’s Fulvia’s process? Cæsar’s I would say? both?

      Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt’s queen,   35

      Thou blushest, Antony, and that blood of thine

      Is Cæsar’s homager; else so thy cheek pays shame

      When shrill-tongu’d Fulvia scolds. The messengers!

      Ant.  Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch

      Of the rang’d empire fall! Here is my space.   40

      Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike

      Feeds beast as man; the nobleness of life

      Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair  [Embracing.

      And such a twain can do ‘t, in which I bind,

      On pain of punishment, the world to weet   45

      We stand up peerless.

      Cleo.        Excellent falsehood!

      Why did he marry Fulvia and not love her?

      I’ll seem the fool I am not; Antony

      Will be himself.   50

      Ant.        But stirr’d by Cleopatra.

      Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours,

      Let’s not confound the time with conference harsh:

      There’s not a minute of our lives should

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