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Antony and Cleopatra: A Classic Shakespeare Tragedy of Love, Power, and Empire
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515425168
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra is a great tragedy of love, empire, political calculation, and divided allegiance. Mark Antony, one of the rulers of Rome, is drawn between his public duty as a soldier and statesman and his consuming passion for Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Around them, Rome and Egypt become more than rival powers: they are opposing worlds of discipline and splendour, strategy and sensuality, imperial ambition and private desire.
The play gives Cleopatra one of Shakespeare's most commanding and mercurial roles: queen, lover, performer, strategist, and survivor in a world dominated by Roman power. Antony's fall is not merely political; it is emotional, moral, and symbolic, a collapse shaped by love, honour, vanity, loyalty, and the hard machinery of empire. Shakespeare sets intimate feeling against the movement of history, creating a drama in which private choices alter the fate of nations.
A major work of Shakespearean tragedy and historical drama, Antony and Cleopatra remains essential for readers interested in classic theatre, Renaissance drama, Roman history on stage, political tragedy, literary romance, and complex portraits of power and desire. This Wilder Publications edition presents one of Shakespeare's most richly varied plays: passionate, ironic, majestic, and severe.
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