388 pages
English language
Published 2000 by Oxford University Press.
William Shakespeare: The tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra (2000, Oxford University Press)
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A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters--the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty . . . between an empire and love. Bold, rich, and splendid in its setting and emotions, Antony And Cleopatra ranks among Shakespeare's supreme achievements.From the Paperback edition.and the narrator vinay has explained what the intension in the relationship between antony and cleopatra
Subjects
- Cleopatra, -- Queen of Egypt, -- d. 30 B.C. -- Drama
- Antonius, Marcus, -- 83?-30 B.C. -- Drama
- Rome -- History -- Civil War, 43-31 B.C. -- Drama