A play that is in the middle of Shakespeare's work in terms of quality. It tells the story of Antony and Cleopatra's doomed romance and their defeat at the hands of the future emperor Octavian. By far the best thing about the play is Cleopatra and Antony as characters and their relationship. Cleo...
An incredible take on the power of politics and the many ways it can change a man, and on the definition of love, and of the actual existence of a definition for love.Featured in my Top 5 Shakespearean Tragedies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX6rxhK4s2o
Rulers fall in love. Rulers lose. Rulers commit suicide. That's the simplified synopses which I admit that I borrowed from Shelfari.com. There's an obvious parallel with Romeo and Juliet, but Antony and Cleopatra were old enough to know better. But I guess love is love, and what does age have to d...
Liked this much better the second time around.Edit 2: OK, I'm not usually of the "you have to see it performed to really appreciate it crowd", but damn. DAMN.
“I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life.” Act 5, scene 2, lns 344-345. So begins Cleopatra’s suicide. Though a legendary queen, she is a willing servant to her own passions. She identifies with them and lives according to their whims. Even Antony’s Roman discipline cannot re...
Even though this is a play about the famed romance of Antony and Cleopatra, I found it a bit dry compared to some of Shakespeare’s other tragedies, especially considering this is his sequel to Julius Caesar. It is a good play with lots of lusty insinuations, as in Julius Caesar, but it’s still missi...
When everyone thinks of great Shakespearean plays, Hamlet springs to mind, or Lear , or The Tempest, or Dream or the lust filled R&J. I, however, think Tony and Cleo, if I may be informal, is one of Shakespeare's best.Instead of the heady, young lust, sorry, love that is R&J we are presented with...
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