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Table of Contents

Introduction
Key Facts
Context

Plot Overview
Shakespearian Language
Character List

Mark Antony
Queen Cleopatra
Octavius Caesar
Enobarbus
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
Pompey
Octavia
Charmian and Iras
The Soothsayer
Dolabella
Agrippa
Camidius
Ventidius
Scarus
Proculeius
Diomedes
Eros
Menas
Seleucus
Clown
Decretas

The Entire Play
Act I, Scene I - V
Act II, Scene I - VII
Act III, Scene I - XIII
Act IV, Scene I - XV
Act V, Scene I – II

Major Themes
The Struggle Between Reason and Emotion
The Clash of East and West
The Definition of Honour
Motifs
Extravagant Declarations of Love
Public Displays of Affection
Female Sexuality …show more content…
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FULL TITLE
The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
AUTHOR
William Shakespeare
TYPE OF WORK
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The most geographically sweeping of Shakespeare’s plays, Antony and Cleopatra’s setting is the entire Roman Empire, its backdrop the well-documented history of Octavius Caesar, Marc Antony, and Cleopatra. Shakespeare’s primary source for Antony and Cleopatra was the Life of Marcus Antonius contained in Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, which was translated into English by Sir Thomas North in 1579. North’s language was so rich that Shakespeare incorporated large, relatively unchanged excerpts of it into his text. The plot of the play also remains close to North’s history, although characters like Enobarbus and Cleopatra’s attendants are largely Shakespearean
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