By William Shakespeare
The authoritative edition of Antony and Cleopatra from The Folger Shakespeare Library the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. Antony and Cleopatra dramatizes a major event in world history: the founding of the Roman Empire. The future first emperor Octavius Caesar (later called Augustus Caesar) cold-bloodedly manipulates other characters and exercises iron control over himself. At first he shares power with Mark Antony Rome's preeminent military leader and the weaker Lepidus. Caesar needs Antony to fend off other Roman strongmen like Pompey; he even offers his sister Octavia to him as a bride despite Antony's reputation as a libertine and his past rivalry with Caesar. Once Caesar defeats Pompey however he needs no allies. He brings charges against Lepidus denies Antony his spoils from Pompey's defeat and seizes cities in the eastern Roman colonies that Antony rules. The play's emphasis however is on those whom Caesar defeats: Antony and his wealthy Egyptian ally Queen Cleopatra. The play does not sugarcoat Antony and Cleopatra's famous love affair including her calculated attempts to seduce Antony from his duties and his rage when he thinks she has betrayed him to Caesar. Nonetheless the lovers find such sensual and emotional satisfaction that Caesar's world conquest seems smaller than what they find in each other.
The authoritative edition of Antony and Cleopatra from The Folger Shakespeare Library the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. Antony and Cleopatra dramatizes a major event in world history: the founding of the Roman Empire. The future first emperor Octavius Caesar (later called Augustus Caesar) cold-bloodedly manipulates other characters and exercises iron control over himself. At first he shares power with Mark Antony Rome's preeminent military leader and the weaker Lepidus. Caesar needs Antony to fend off other Roman strongmen like Pompey; he even offers his sister Octavia to him as a bride despite Antony's reputation as a libertine and his past rivalry with Caesar. Once Caesar defeats Pompey however he needs no allies. He brings charges against Lepidus denies Antony his spoils from Pompey's defeat and seizes cities in the eastern Roman colonies that Antony rules. The play's emphasis however is on those whom Caesar defeats: Antony and his wealthy Egyptian ally Queen Cleopatra. The play does not sugarcoat Antony and Cleopatra's famous love affair including her calculated attempts to seduce Antony from his duties and his rage when he thinks she has betrayed him to Caesar. Nonetheless the lovers find such sensual and emotional satisfaction that Caesar's world conquest seems smaller than what they find in each other.
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