Antony and Cleopatra

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Antony and Cleopatra is a Shakespearean tragedy dramatizing the passionate and politically fraught relationship between the Roman triumvir Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Shakespearean tragedy
play
tragedy
author William Shakespeare
basedOn Plutarch’s Parallel Lives
surface form: Plutarch's Life of Mark Antony

Plutarch’s Parallel Lives
surface form: Plutarch's Lives
containsCharacter Agrippa II
surface form: Agrippa

Alexas
Charmian
Cleopatra VII
surface form: Cleopatra

Diomedes
Dolabella
Aenobarbus
surface form: Enobarbus

Eros
Iras
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
surface form: Lepidus

Mardian
Mark Antony
Menas
Octavia
Octavius Caesar
Pompey the Great
surface form: Pompey

Proculeius
Scarus
Seleucus I Nicator
surface form: Seleucus

Soothsayer
Thyreus
Ventidius
dramaticFocus relationship between Mark Antony and Cleopatra
dramaticStructure five-act play
ending death of Cleopatra
death of Mark Antony
firstPublicationDate 1623
firstPublishedIn First Folio of Shakespeare
surface form: First Folio
form verse drama
genre historical drama
tragedy
historicalEventDepicted Battle of Actium
historicalFigureDepicted Cleopatra VII
surface form: Cleopatra VII Philopator

Augustus
surface form: Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus

Mark Antony
historicalPeriodDepicted final years of the Roman Republic
language English
literaryCanonStatus major Shakespearean tragedy
literaryMovement English Renaissance drama
surface form: Elizabethan and Jacobean drama
literaryPeriod English Renaissance
mainCharacter Charmian
Cleopatra VII
surface form: Cleopatra

Aenobarbus
surface form: Enobarbus

Iras
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
surface form: Lepidus

Mark Antony
Octavius Caesar
Pompey the Great
surface form: Pompey
periodOfComposition circa 1606–1607
placeOfFirstPublication London, England
surface form: London
politicalContextDepicted struggle for control of the Roman world
setting Alexandria, Egypt
Roman Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Rome
theme East–West cultural conflict
empire and power
honor and betrayal
identity and performance
love and politics
verseForm blank verse

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William Shakespeare notableWork Antony and Cleopatra
Mark Antony portrayedInWork Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespearean tragedies includesWork Antony and Cleopatra
Cleopatra VII portrayedInWork Antony and Cleopatra
this entity surface form: William Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra"
Samuel Barber notableWork Antony and Cleopatra
First Folio of Shakespeare containsWork Antony and Cleopatra
works of William Shakespeare includesWork Antony and Cleopatra
subject surface form: Works of William Shakespeare
King's Men performedWork Antony and Cleopatra
A Game of Chess alludesTo Antony and Cleopatra
Sophie Okonedo notableWork Antony and Cleopatra
Parallel Lives notableInfluencedWork Antony and Cleopatra
Roman Lives influencedWork Antony and Cleopatra
this entity surface form: Antony and Cleopatra (play)
Vivian Mary Hartley performedIn Antony and Cleopatra
subject surface form: Vivien Leigh
this entity surface form: Antony and Cleopatra (stage production)
Gregory Doran notableWork Antony and Cleopatra
this entity surface form: RSC production of Antony and Cleopatra